Outhwaite Homes

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Outhwaite Homes is a public housing development in Cleveland, Ohio at East 55th Street and Woodland Avenue. The 100-plus-unit complex is presently run by the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA). It provides residential housing for low-income families in the eastern section of downtown Cleveland. Built in 1935 and possibly named after Joseph H. Outhwaite, it was the first federally funded public housing in the Cleveland area and one of the first in the U.S..

Two famous Cleveland brothers, Louis Stokes (US Congressman for over 28 years) and Carl Stokes (first black mayor of a major US city 1967) were among the first residents of Outhwaite.

[edit] See also

• Public housing in the United States and Canada

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• Outhwaite Homes