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[[image - black & white photograph of a housing project in Chicago]]

This is one of the great Government housing projects, the Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago. It cost $9,638,000 and 1,662 families live there. Below is a picture taken inside one of their comfortable apartments. Other famous housing projects include the John Hope Homes in Atlanta, Harlem River Houses and South Jamaica Homes in New York, Poindexter Village in Columbus, James Weldon Johnson Homes in Philadelphia, Terrace Village in Pittsburgh, LaFitte in New Orleans, Beecher Terrace in Louisville, College Hill in Chattanooga.

[[image - black & white photograph of Negro family in well-kept living room]]