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First Houses was the nation’s first public housing project. On November 21, 1934, the city began its battle against the slums when the newly formed New York City Housing Authority obtained the right to demolish and rebuild the tenements on this site. These buildings, First Houses, remain a fitting monument to the beginning of the public housing program in the United States of America.
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