percent were nuclear families. In 1943 there were sixty-one children living in the complex.

Resolution 234 passed in February of 1943. It outlined eligibility standards for prospective residents of Stevens Courts:
1. Families whose net income at the time of admission falls within income limits (family income below $6,696.00 per year).
2. Families who conform to occupancy limits.
3. Families who constitute a “natural” family, or a cohesive family group.
4. Families who are living, immediately prior to admission, under housing conditions detrimental to health, safety, or morals, or who cannot find decent, safe, and sanitary housing at rents they can afford to pay.
5. Families who conform to the regulations adopted by H.A.T.T. (including U.S. citizenship).
6. Families who are able to pay rents without additional sacrifice. 7. Families who are “reasonable” rent risks.
Families with minor dependent children would receive preference over those without children, and each family’s eligibility would be re-evaluated yearly, at the end of the year.

Resolution 251, passed at the May 24, 1943, board meeting, stated that the Total Operating Expense for Stevens Courts from January 1, 1943 to December 31, 1943, would be $13,436.25, while the Total Operating Income would be $23,446.94. Total Management Costs would be $3,080.00 and Total Repairs and Maintenance would be $1,700.00. For comparison, Total rentals brought in $23,006.64 in 1942; loss through vacancy was $7,081.00. Total Management costs were $4,697.38 in 1942 and Total Maintenance and Repairs was $1,123.80.

In January of 1944, a delinquency list was given to the H.A.T.T. Board for tenants in Stevens Courts. It showed that Marvin L. Brown had moved from apartment 142 without giving notice and owing H.A.T.T. $15.00; O.W. Bland moved without leaving a forwarding address and owing H.A.T.T. $10.00; and Clarence Gorman moved, owing $9.05.

At the May 21, 1944, board meeting an operating budget for Stevens Courts for 1945 was approved. Resolution 299 noted that Total Operating Income for 1945 would be $28,800.00 (1944 was $28,679.18); Total Management Expenses would be $3,887.70 (1944 was $3,970.79); and Total Maintenance and Repairs would be $1,608.00 (1944 was $1,515.60).

G.H. Brooks, secretary of H.A.T.T., sent the Stevens Court Project Development Completion Certificate to U.S.H.A. in May 1945. This document showed that total Administrative costs were $14,947.14.

By 1950, World War II was over and the need for defense plant worker housing ended. The makeup of the Stevens Courts tenants changed at that time. Only four tenants listed their employment with either R.R.A.P. or L.S.A.A.P. Only one apartment was vacant. The 1950 Texarkana City Directory did not list number of children; however, of the 123 filled apartments, 47 of them were housing single adults and 76 housed couples. Sixteen of the families were unemployed at the time the directory survey was made.