That Roosevelt bought houses during the Great Depression? WTH? Someone has to look that up, but it doesn’t sound right.
Roosevelt had many public works projects that bought up existing housing, eventually demolished it, and then put a highway thru, or public housing, or a monument to some senator’s mommy whose vote he needed. There were also pilot public housing projects. And people engineering projects.
And he had a great program for housing the Japanese.
I heard that too. The Depression started with Hoover in office.
FACT check please!
I know when ranchers could not sell cattle for any price- and could not afford to buy feed- the government bought my grandfather’s (and other ranchers of course) cattle and sent men out to shoot them on the ranch and leave them to rot while people were starving in the cities.
I have never heard about the government buying houses, that really does need to be looked up.
The following from a google search “roosevelt houses” depression: “...Spurred by documentary photographs, the federal government stepped in in the 1930’s and made Gee’s Bend a model of the New Deal, reimagining the town and replacing skinned-pine log houses chinked with clay with ‘’Roosevelt houses,’’ as they are still called, equipped with leakless roofs, cast-iron stoves and other improvements. The program created a rarity: a whole community of independent African-American landowners in the impoverished rural South...”
So far that’s the most I could find about the Roosevelt Houses.