Category:Farm Security Administration defense housing projects

Excerpt from Charles D. Chamberlain's Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South During World War II (University of Georgia Press, 2003, page 128):

With war mobilization, the Farm Security Administration expanded its housing programs for migrant farmworkers to encompass workers employed in defense industries.

From the Annual Report of the Administrator of the Farm Security Administration, 1941–42 (page 25):

War Housing
FSA was designated to provide some war housing because of its experience in the construction of low-cost homes under its resettlement and farm ownership programs, and in the construction of farm labor supply centers. By June 30, 1942, 7,724 family trailers, dormitories to house 9,214 single persons, demountable houses for 966 families, and dormitory trailers for 150 single men had been provided under supervision of FSA engineers. Permanent-type homes which were assigned to FSA for construction consisted of 350 units in Virginia, 1,000 units at Greenbelt, Maryland, and 72 units in California.