Outhwaite Homes is a public housing

Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. Social housing is an umbrella term referring to rental housing which may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the...

 development under jurisdiction of the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

. Built in 1935 and possibly named after Joseph H. Outhwaite

Joseph H. Outhwaite

Joseph Hodson Outhwaite was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Outhwaite attended the public schools of Zanesville, Ohio.He taught in the high school of that city 1862-1864....

, it was the first federally funded public housing in the Cleveland area and one of the first in the U.S.

United States

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. The 100-plus-unit complex at East 55th Street and Woodland Avenue is, in autumn of 2011, in the final stages of redevelopment.. The Outhwaite Homes, like other housing developments in the CMHA, provides residential housing for low-income families in the eastern section of downtown Cleveland.

Two famous Cleveland brothers, Louis Stokes

Louis Stokes

Louis Stokes is a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the United States House of Representatives....

 (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.