Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority v. Thatcher

In the instant case the project executed by the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority was the acquisition of a slum area, the demolition of the existing buildings and the erection thereon of safe and sanitary dwellings, rented exclusively to families which lived in unsafe and unsanitary homes and could not afford to pay the rent demanded by private owners for the same character of living accommodations.

The slum clearance and low rent housing program is essentially in the public interest, being a cooperative effort on the part of the federal and local authorities to solve a vital social…