October 2, 2008
Lyndon Johnson in front of Austin public housing in 1938.
On the behalf of the board and staff of the Texas Low Income Housing Information we want to thank the more than 200 people who turned out for your 20th anniversary celebration last night.
We looked back at the accomplishments that have been made in affordable, low-income housing in Texas in the past twenty years.
We also took a special look at the historic groundwork that President Lyndon Johnson did in affordable housing beginning in 1938, when as a young congressman Johnson fought hard to convince Austin to embrace the first public housing development under the Housing Act of 1936.
We produced a film tribute to President Johnson’s contribultion to the housing movement that I’ll post here in the near future.
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