<P> The Housing Act of 1937 (Pub. L. 75--412, 50 Stat. 888, enacted September 1, 1937), formally the "United States Housing Act of 1937" and sometimes called the Wagner - Steagall Act, provided for subsidies to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHAs) to improve living conditions for low - income families . </P> <P> The act created the United States Housing Authority within the US Department of the Interior . The act builds on the National Housing Act of 1934, which created the Federal Housing Administration . Both the 1934 Act and the 1937 Act were influenced by American housing reformers of the period, with Catherine Bauer Wurster chief among them . Bauer drafted much of this legislation and served as a Director in the United States Housing Authority, the agency created by the 1937 Act to control the payment of subsidies, for two years . </P> <P> The sponsoring legislators were Representative Henry B. Steagall, Democrat of Alabama, and Senator Robert F. Wagner, Democrat of New York . </P>

Which agency formed as the result of the us housing act of 1937