The Victory Home:
Housing--Housing Developments

Poster: Help Bring Them Back to You! Make Yours a Victory Home!

In some areas, the government contracted to build developments to house defense workers and military families.

Photos

Poster image is courtesy of the Northwestern University Library poster database.

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Stories

"We Stalk and Trap an Apartment"

“Ready for Occupancy?”

These stories are from HistoryLink: The Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History.

Wartime housing in Washington State: Seattle (Holly Park, Duwamish Bend) and Tacoma (Salishan article, Salishan essay)

Photos

These photos are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

"4,000 Unit Housing Project Progress Photographs March 6,1943 to August 11, 1943, Richmond, CA ; Children playing , sliding down a slide."

"4,000 Unit Housing Project Progress Photographs March 6,1943 to August 11, 1943; Housing units by railroad tracks"

"4,000 Unit Housing Project Progress Photographs March 6,1943 to August 11, 1943; Looking down a street towards the west"

The American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945. has many photos of defense housing developments. Search keywords, defense housing

These photos are on the Call It Home site from Columbia University.

Defense housing

Pamphlets

This pamphlet is in the Northwestern University Library collection. Click on the small image to see a larger one.

FWA Builds for Victory

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These pamphlets are in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

Defense Housing, 1941

Homes for Defense: A Statement of Function

War Housing in the United States

War Housing Manual