Public Housing Construction and the Cities: 1937–1967

Table 7

Expected and actual public housing units.

City	Expected units	Actual units	Population 1960 (1000s)	Percent; Nonwhite	Poverty; (Inc <$2,000)	Percent; Owner-Occ.	Built after  1940
New York	63,083	64,633	7,782	14.7	19.4	19.1	8.4
Chicago	29,596	32,960	3,550	23.6	14.5	30.4	4.8
Los Ang.	18,330	9,287	2,479	16.8	21.2	45.8	25.0
Phil.	15,590	15,719	2,003	26.7	21.6	56.1	7.9
Detroit	11,084	8,180	1,670	29.2	13.2	53.9	17.4
Balt.	8,095	10,335	939	35.0	22.7	51.7	15.3
Houston	5,615	2,599	938	23.2	22.9	50.1	36.3
Cleveland	8,444	7,458	876	28.9	17.4	42.7	6.4
Wash DC	8,641	10,056	764	54.8	17.6	32.3	22.3
St. Louis	9,907	7,245	750	28.8	23.5	34.8	3.8
Milw’kee	5,350	3,066	741	8.9	13.1	43.0	9.1
San Fran.	6,689	5,883	740	18.4	16.2	36.7	14.1
Boston	9,291	10,973	697	9.8	21.0	24.9	5.1
Dallas	2,752	6,372	680	19.3	20.5	53.0	35.4
New Orl.	9,902	12,270	628	37.4	33.2	33.8	17.6
Pittsb.	6,537	9,234	604	16.8	21.2	42.4	6.4
San Ant.	3,903	5,563	588	7.4	33.3	56.4	30.2
Seattle	1,638	3,520	557	8.4	16.3	56.5	20.0
Buffalo	5,381	4,370	533	13.8	17.9	43.6	3.6
Cincy	7,091	6,222	503	21.8	25.0	37.9	8.5