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Construction in Anacostia, 1970s.
Lack of city planning led to a rush of poorly constructed, ill-suited housing construction that remade Anacostia's built environment. By the late 1960s, far Southeast suffered from a concentration of high-density residential apartments, many of them garden apartments. Much of the new construction was financed through the FHA's Section 608 program, which guaranteed loans covering 90% of the project's development costs. Growth and new construction in the area were haphazard and uncontrolled. |