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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) is responsible for administering and
managing a range of programs authorized and funded by
Congress under the basic provisions of the U.S. Housing
Act of 1937. The Act created the public and Indian housing
program, which now provides affordable housing to over
1.3 million households nationwide. The aim of the Office
of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) is to ensure safe,
decent, and affordable housing; create opportunities
for residents' self-sufficiency and economic independence;
and assure fiscal integrity by all program participants.
Local housing agencies were incorporated to manage the
housing for low-income residents at rents they could
afford.
 In
December 1938, the Charlotte City Council declared a
need for a housing authority in Charlotte. The Council
believed that sanitary and safe inhabited dwelling accommodations
at rents, which persons of low income could afford,
did not exist in the City of Charlotte or its surrounding
areas. Mayor Ben E. Douglas appointed a group of five
citizens to complete the application for incorporation
of the Housing Authority of the City of Charlotte. The
North Carolina Secretary of State incorporated the agency
in June 1939.
The Housing Authority of the City of
Charlotte (CHA) began developing assisted (low income)
housing units immediately.
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