The Campbell Village Court housing projects are a series of complexes located in the Campbell Village part of the Lower Bottoms area of

West Oakland West Oakland is a neighborhood situated in the northwestern corner of Oakland, California, United States, situated west of Downtown Oakland, south of Emeryville, and north of Alameda. The neighborhood is located along the waterfront at the P ...

California. Campbell Village Court is bounded by Willow Street to the west, Campbell Street to the east, 10th street to the north, and 8th street to the south. Campbell Village was first housing project of the

Oakland Housing Authority The Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) is the public housing agency for the city of Oakland, California. Its mission statement states that it will "assure the availability of quality housing for low-income persons and promote the civic involvement a ...

. It was funded by the

Housing Act of 1937 The Housing Act of 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 cond ...

which required a similar number of homes to be demolished as would be created. To make way for the project, 67 homes were demolished as well as the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Campbell Village opened in June, 1941 with 154 units.

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