September 14, 1939 – The Chicago Housing Authority
is notified that its application for $7,719,000 of Public Works administration
funding for the construction of a public housing complex has been
approved. This will be the fifth federal
housing project in the city, following the Jane Addams houses, Julia Lathrop
homes, Trumbull Park apartments, and the Ida B. Wells project that is under
construction at Vincennes Avenue and Pershing Road. Although the location is not disclosed so as
to forestall real estate speculation, it is most likely that the new project
will be near the Jane Addams homes and will comprise the Robert Brooks Homes
with 835 row houses. Elizabeth Wood,
executive secretary of the Chicago Housing authority, says, “We will definitely
be in competition with the lowest slum area houses. We particularly want to afford accommodations
for those families who now live in $15 a month flats.” [Chicago
Daily Tribune, September 15, 1939]
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