<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>
which agency formed as the result of the us housing act of 1937
the United States Housing Authority within the US Department of the Interior