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Interesting die cut birdseye view and promotional brochure for View Park, within the City of Los Angeles, extolling the virtues of the newly passed National Housing Act of 1934, a New Deal law intended to make housing more affordable.
View Park was developed in the 1920s as an upper-middle-class neighborhood akin to Cheviot Hills, Brentwood, Carthay Circle, and Studio City. Along with neighboring Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills, it is one of the wealthiest African-American areas in the United States.
Windsor Hills underwent development in the late 1930s; aimed at the middle class, it was the first subdivision in Southern California for which the newly created Federal Housing Administration provided mortgage insurance. African-Americans were forbidden residence in either area until the Supreme Court's invalidation of racial restrictive covenants in 1948.
The National Housing Act of 1934 was an affordable housing law, which resulted in the formation of the Federal Housing Adminstration and the Federl Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.
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