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2. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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   For a number of years individual Congressmen put forward bills providing for homesteading, [1] [2] but it was not until 1862 that the first homestead act was passed. The Homestead Act of 1862 opened up millions of acres. Any adult who had never taken up arms against the federal government of the United States could apply. Women and immigrants ...

3. Subsistence Homesteads Division - Wikipedia

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   The program was created to provide low-rent homesteads, including a home and small plots of land that would allow people to sustain themselves. Through the program, 34 communities were built. [ 2 ] Unlike subsistence farming , subsistence homesteading is based on a family member or members having part-time, paid employment. [ 3 ]

4. Urban homesteading - Wikipedia

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   Urban American cities, such as New York City, have used policies of urban homesteading to encourage citizens to occupy and rebuild vacant properties. [1] [2] Policies by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development allowed for federally owned properties to be sold to homesteaders for nominal sums as low as $1, financed otherwise by the state, and inspected after a one-year period. [3]

5. Black land loss in the United States - Wikipedia

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   When black Americans finally gained citizenship in 1866, Congress passed the Southern Homestead Act. This Act was meant to avail land in states such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi to acquisition by the people, which included the black population. At the core of Act was the endeavor to give black Americans the ...

6. Preemption (land) - Wikipedia

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   Preemption was a term used in the nineteenth century to refer to a settler's right to purchase public land at a federally set minimum price; it was a right of first refusal. Usually this was conferred to male heads of households who developed the property into a farm.

7. Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs - Wikipedia

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   The first executive director of TDCA was Fritz Lanham, who had previously worked as the city manager of Baytown, Texas. [9] The Texas Legislature expanded the TDCA by authorizing the creation of human resource centers throughout Texas communities. [8] In March 1979, the Senate introduced SB 296 for the creation of a Texas Housing Agency (THA).