Project: I have the topic of Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC) (Employment Project)
and I have the United States Housing Authority (USHA) (Housing)
Year Passed: 1933-1941
Basic Definition: *The CCC was a public work relief program in the United States for unemployed men ages 18-25, (from 1933-1942). As part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments.
What it Specifically Did (examples): The CCC was designed to provide relief for young men in relief families who had a very hard time finding jobs during the Great Depression while implementing a general natural resource conservation program in every state and territory. Maximum enrollment reached 300,000 and in nine years some 2.5 million young men participated. The U.S. Army was in charge of operations, but there was no military training nor uniforms.
*The CCC, also known as Roosevelt's Tree Army, was credited with renewing the nation's decimated forests by planting an estimated three billion trees from 1933 to 1942. This was crucial, especially in states affected by the Dust Bowl, where reforestation was necessary to break the wind, hold water in the soil, and hold the soil in place. So far reaching was the CCC's reforestation program that it was responsible for more than half the reforestation, public and private accomplishments in the nation's history.
*What it Specifically Did (examples): The CCC was designed to provide relief for young men in relief families who had a very hard time finding jobs during the Great Depressionrwhile implementing a general natural resource conservation program in every state and territory. Maximum enrollment reached 300,000 and in nine years some 2.5 million young men participated. The U.S. Army was in charge of operations, but there was no military training nor uniforms.
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Was it Successful?:
*The CCC's reforestation program was so "far reaching" that it was responsible for more than half the reforestation, public and private accomplishments in the nation's history.
*The CCC camps stimulated regional economies and provided communities with improvements in forest activity, flood control, fire protection, and overall community safety.
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Is it Still Around Today?:
*By 1942, with the war industries booming and the draft in operation, need declined and Congress voted to close the program.
**The United States Housing Authority (USHA) (Housing): It was designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction. Units for about 650,000 low-income people but mostly homeless were started. Progressives early in the 20th century had argued that improving the physical environment of poorer citizens would improve their quality of life and chances for success (and cause better social behavior).
*Year Passed: agency created during 1937 as part of the New Deal.
*What It Specifically Did (examples): The act required that the construction of new public housing units be matched by the removal of an equal number of substandard dwellings from the local housing supply. This meant that, in deference to the real estate and home building interests, the federal housing program would increase the quality of housing without increasing the quantity.
*Was it Successful?: Yes..
the federal government, in keeping with the rulings of the courts, would provide the money for housing, but the initiative for the housing and the ownership and operation of the housing would be the responsibility of a local entity known as a public housing authority, appointed by local elected officials.
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Is it Still Around Today?:
Defenders of public housing point out that the program was beset with limitations at its outset, has never been truly fully funded, and continues to serve a limited income population that the private real estate sector has never tried to serve.
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