These files pertain to Siegel's role as Executive Director of the Los Angeles Citizens Housing Council, a post she held from 1947 to 1948. Included are article clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence, reports, memoranda, journal excerpts, several editions of the Council newsletter, other publications created and distributed by the Council, various pieces of housing-related legislation drafted at the state and federal levels, and the Council's 1947 Report on the Conference on Housing. All materials in these files relate to the Council's objective of ensuring the existence of equitable and affordable housing in Los Angeles, and many pertain specifically to the controversial Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill which spearheaded the construction of federally-subsidized public housing developments.