The U.S. Housing Corporation built nearly 300 homes in Bremerton, Wash., during World War I. National Archives by Eran Ben-Joseph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 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 … Continued
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