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4 unusual facts about United Housing Foundation


Castle Village, Manhattan

The labor movement owned United Housing Foundation built tens of thousands of cooperative apartments using a similar layout.

Cooperative Village

The East River Housing Corporation was one of the first developments of the newly formed United Housing Foundation and was financially sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

The cooperatives were sponsored, organized and built by trade unions, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, as well as the United Housing Foundation, a development organization set up by the unions in 1951.

Penn South

The 10-building 2,820-unit complex was built in 1962, and was sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union based on the cooperative model promoted by the United Housing Foundation.



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