Editing Public Works Administration (section)

==Housing==
[[File:NYCHA Williamsburg Houses April 2022 003.jpg|thumb|Williamsburg Houses as of April, 2022]]
The PWA was supposed to be the centerpiece of the New Deal's drive to [[Subsidized housing in the United States|build public housing]] for the urban poor. [[Public housing]] was a new concept in the United States, tested for the first time during the New Deal. With this in mind the PWA constructed a total of 52 housing communities for a total of 29,000 units, which was less than what many supporters of public housing had hoped for. The first public housing community built by PWA was the [[Racial segregation in the United States|whites-only]] [[Techwood Homes]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Perry-Brown |first1=Nena |date=2020-05-29 |title=A brew of advocacy and agency concocted the US public housing system that we know today |url=https://ggwash.org/view/77803/how-the-us-public-housing-system-came-to-be |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=ggwash.org |language=en}}</ref> The PWA also built one of the first public housing projects in [[New York City]], the [[Williamsburg Houses]] in [[Brooklyn]].