Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis. Really!

Was this piece is written by a socialist professor from MIT?

One more reason to call the Progressive President Woodrow Wilson a socialist!

"In 1918, as World War I intensified overseas, the U.S. government embarked on a radical experiment: It quietly became the nation’s largest housing developer, designing and constructing more than 80 new communities across 26 states in just two years. ...

In just two years, this federal initiative provided housing for almost 100,000 people.

Few Americans are aware that such an ambitious and comprehensive public housing effort ever took place. Many of the homes are still standing today.

But as an urban planning scholar [socialist], I believe that this brief historic moment – spearheaded by a shuttered agency called the United States Housing Corporation – offers a revealing lesson on what government-led planning can achieve during a time of national need. ..."

Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis

Eran Ben-Joseph, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)