91,000 LOW RENT HOMES READY SOON
91,000 Low Rent Homes Ready Soon WASHINGTON D. C—A total of about 91,000 low-rent homes, or nearly two-thirds of the 160,000 to be provided for low-income families from the,nation's slums under the...
...The current national slum-clearance and low-rent public housing program Includes approximately 435 projects In 208 communities in 35 states, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...
...An estimated average of 2,300 families, or 8,700 persons, will have been rehoused each month in projects reaching completion between Jan...
...A total of 9,700 families, or 37,000 persons have been removed from America's slums to safe and sanitary homes since the first five projects in the present USHA program were opened to tenants last July 4. This total will be increased to about 17,000 families, or about 65.000 persons by June 30, Mr...
...Straus stated, on the basis of progress shown and indicated by the current survey...
...The 25,000 USHA-aided dwellings going into construction during the first six months of 1940 provide direct employment at the sites for about 68.-200 men...
...Loan contracts and other commitments made to the local housing authorities In these communities have exhausted available USHA loan funds, and $1,006,900,000 in requests from 181 communities remain unfilled for lack of funds...
...With 12,500 new dwellings going Into construction in May and June, nearly 25.000 homes will have gone under construction during the first six months of 1940...
...They will provide safe and sanitary homes for 80,882 lew-income families now living In substandard structures...
...By the end of June, 27 additional projects to care for about 8.600 additional families will be under way...
...To date, 209 of the 453 projects in the current program have been put into construction...
...91,000 Low Rent Homes Ready Soon WASHINGTON D. C—A total of about 91,000 low-rent homes, or nearly two-thirds of the 160,000 to be provided for low-income families from the,nation's slums under the current nation-wide public housing program, will be completed or under construction by June 30, a report of the United States Housing Authority pointed out this week...
...Their wages will amount to about $33,400,000...
...They will rehouse 12,-307 families and are about 80 per cent occupied...
...1 and June 30, 1940...
...Twenty-five USHA-aided public housing projects now have reached a tenancy itatus...
...the USHA survey show-s...
...Straus asserted...
...Approximately 20,000 dwelling units will have been completed by June 30...
...Construction materials will cost around $43,000,000...
...An amendment to the United States Housing ict now pending in congress would authorize additional USHA loan funds sufficient to virtually double the current program, USHA Administrator Nathan Straus said, and would care for the more urgent slum clearance needs of the communities now seeking USHA assistance...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 22
