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I was looking to make my way in life again for myself and my family when my son told me about Little Pink Houses of America out of ************ *******. I lost my family business of almost 30 years. I'm a business owner that was devastated when fuel prices skyrocketed.

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My mother has been in and out of the hospital needing full time care for the past 4 years and the worldwide pandemic has been hard on everyone. The reason it’s taken so long to contact BBB is that the company is Christian oriented and I expected the rest of the binder money to be paid, I even allowed installments. I feel as though Little Pink Houses of America owes me a minimum of the rest of my binder and I should receive the $230.00 application fee back as well since they haven’t paid back the binder. I received approximately $1500 back to which the company stopped sending my money. The seller sold his property to another individual and I started to receive my money back from Little Pink Houses of America in incremental amounts. Signed and dated by the Agent for Little Pink Houses of America. I placed a $5000.00 binder, which is 100% refundable back to buyer if for ANY reason - seller or buyer can not agree on terms. In 1999, Mayor Giuliani funded an $81,000 renovation that brought new play equipment, safety surfacing, and handball courts.I applied for the purchase of a property on December 19, 2016. The playground, bordered by Eldert Lane and Stanley Avenue, belongs to the Housing Authority, but is operated and maintained by Parks. The City decided to name the complex and the planned adjoining recreation area in memory of Louis Pink, the long-time public housing advocate, who had died on May 18, 1955. The Board of Estimate approved the revised plan to develop 22 eight-story buildings on April 25, 1957, with the goal of housing 1500 families. The City acquired the housing site on March 13, 1957. As a response, planning began in 1955 for the construction of a federally aided, low-rent public housing project. Adding to the problem was the need to relocate families displaced from sites of other public improvements around the city. In this particular East New York neighborhood, a steady stream of German, Italian, Russian, and Polish immigrants led to a dense population and a housing shortage in the late 1940s.

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Each apartment had a full bathroom and kitchen with windows providing outdoor light and access to air on both sides, making the new dwellings extremely desirable. The First Houses and subsequent developments were based on designs that originated in the 19th century: low-rise apartment buildings with playgrounds, shops, and places to hold community meetings. Shortly after they were built The United States Housing Act was passed, setting aside $100 million for housing construction. The agency’s first project, completed in 1936, was a 210-unit development on the Lower East Side, named appropriately, The First Houses. In 1934, the New York City Housing Authority was created, the first such local authority of its kind in the United States.

Inspired by innovative public housing projects produced in Europe, Pink and his fellow reformers called for measures stronger than changing building codes and constructing “model tenements.” In his book, he offers a variety of solutions to the nation’s housing crisis, including more slum condemnation, tax exemptions for speculative house builders, and the exploration of “cooperative housing plans.” A 1928 New York Times review called The New Day in Housing, “an exceedingly interesting, forward-looking, and on the whole, hopeful book.” He felt affordable housing should be constructed not only for the middle income earners but also for the lower paid wage earners. LaGuardia (1882-1947) enact a massive rental housing program.

During his tenure as the Chairman of the State Board of Housing (from 1937 to 1939), he suggested that Mayor Fiorello H.

After being admitted to the bar, he lived and worked in New York City. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, and later received his law degree from New York Law School in 1906. Pink Houses.īorn in Wausau, Wisconsin, on December 4, 1882, Pink attended St. This playground was built to provide recreation facilities for the local residents of the adjacent Louis H. As part of his extensive record of civil service he acted as the state insurance superintendent, the chairman of the New York State Housing Board, and wrote several books including The New Day in Housing (1928), the first volume on modern community housing to be published in the United States. Pink (1882-1955), a committed civic reformer and an early advocate of creating government-subsidized, low-rent housing.