Housing Private construction-Continued.

Post-war outlook-Continued.

Construction during 5-year period after end of first year after
war, number of workers (Whitlock).

Page

285

616

65,80
260-261

Construction of a million and a half of units every year for 10
years needed (Walsh, Congress of Industrial Organizations) __
Construction projected to 1946; dollar value (Foreman) ––
Conversion of existing structures (Cortright) ---
Dwelling units requirements within 15 years after the war
(Pomeroy).

Employment of 10,000,000 returning soldiers and war-workers
assured by providing for 2,000,000 building units a year for
10 years (Mattison).

118

420-421

Estimate of expenditures needed for total volume of private
residential construction (Whitlock) –

Financing arrangements to encourage home ownership advo-
cated (Whitlock) –

281

285-286

101, 126

Financing, Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance
or building and loan; inquiry (Lanham)___
Housing preponderantly a private area; Government assistance
through private enterprise on behalf of lower income group
(Blandford)

598-599

National Association of Home Builders of the United States,
first formal conference held in Washington in January
1944; summary.

Ib., opposed to public housing as a precursor of completely sub-
sidized industry (Cortright).

250

259-260

Necessity, for time being, of titles I and II National Housing Act;
amendinents or new titles for post-war needs (Cortright) __
Number of new housing units possible in 5-year period after first
year of end of war; number of workers given employment
(Whitlock).

New construction of low-cost housing on vacant low-cost land or
on cleared slum sites (Cortright)

Number of new nonfarm units per year to be built (Whitlock).
Post-war construction program, total dollar value, ratio in
housing (Hale)_.

Post-war local initiative policy advocated in Statement of objec-
tives of American Society of Civil Engineers; excerpt_.
Post-war probable conditions__

251

285

261

283

99

100

136

Private enterprise must have assurance that there will be no com-
petition by Government in the housing field (Cortright; Lan-
ham; Johnstone)

259

Private initiative, private investment should play leading part
(Bates)

549

Public housing construction versus private enterprise (Outland;
Nelson).

49

Rate per annum of home construction during 10 years after end
of war (Bates) ----

Under all titles of National Housing Act, after the war (Lanham;
inquiry)

127

Volume of 10,000,000 homes estimated requirement (Cartright).
Public versus private construction; inquiry (Manasco)_.

250

490

Cooperative activities_.

136

Rent certificate plan. (See Rent certificates.)

Savings banks participation in housing rehabilitation projects in New
York State (Kilburn; Ecker)__

177

Subsidized construction for a fraction of units needed; advocated
(Walsh, C. I. O.)‒‒‒‒‒

Wartime:

Governmental restrictions, relaxation and removal urged as
quickly as possible (Cortright) --

250, 254

National Association of Home Builders of the United States, num-
ber of units under construction, number with preference ratings,
number in programing stage (Cortright).

Operations (Cortright)__

250

248

Housing: Private construction-Continued.

Wartime -Continued.

Priority issuing agencies staffed by men with no building experi- Page
ence (Arnold; Cortright)__

249

Volume of war construction in 1942 without Federal Housing Ad-
ministration insurance (Cortright)_.

252

War Production Board stoppage order of October 26, 1942, re-
scinded within 5 days (Cortright).

249

Acceptance of public housing an obligation of Government (Na-
tional Association of Housing Officials)

Assistance for housing of neediest families should be provided and
frankly earmarked as relief and welfare expenditure; Pro-
ducers' Council, Inc_----

Assistance to the needy program (Nelson) -.

Chicago Housing Authority pays service charge to the city (Rowan;
Kincaid).

Community housing responsibility factors_.

Competitor of private enterprise; effect on real estate (Nelson).
Costs, congressoinal investigation asked (Nelson).

Defense housing.

Act discussion.)

Abandoned in St. Louis and in Utah when plants closed down
(Elliott)--

Conditions on west coast (Elliott).

Defense housing conditions (Fleming; Elliott)_

222

Definition of temporary, mobile, semipermanent, and permanent
housing essential (Lanham; Cortright).

258

Disposition of federally owned and defaulted housing; proposals
for procedures (Pomeroy) ––

130

Economy in Government; defense housing authorization criti-
cized (Wilson) –

10

Federal Public Housing Authority, federally aided projects for
post-war construction, applications invited; summary.

Labor turn-over relationship on west coast (Capozzoli; Wilson) - 12-13
Payments by F. P. H. A. to cities in lieu of taxes (Manasco).
Money wasted on unnecessary housing (Wilson).

Rent increases at time of first occupancy approved by N. H. A.
(Bates)

Situation in St. Louis__-

Surplus construction inconsistent with plea for economy in war-
time (Wilson).

Surplus construction problem (Elliott).

Two-year removal clause in Lanham Act, sec. 313, must be
strengthened (Cortright) _

Number of units available to National Housing Authority; cost
per unit; cost to move to new site (Blandford).
Guaranteed loans, consideration of recommended (LaGuardia)__
Justifiable only in field below level of profitable private enterprise
(Pomeroy)

Legislative history:

1937, September 1: United States Housing Act, 1937. Slum Clear-
ance Act; Wagner Act (50 Stat. 888:

Program under act; suspension during war (Lanham; Pom-
eroy).

126

Program under United States Housing Act defended; resump-
tion advocated (Bates).

Purpose of and accomplishments under act (Pomeroy)
1940, October 14: To expedite the provision of housing in connec-
tion with national defense (Lanham Act, Public 849, Seventy-
sixth Cong. (54 Stat. 1125).

551, 553
131-133

126

Building codes militate against administration of act (Lan-
ham)___

256

Purely a duration measure (Lanham).

126

Section 313: Approved July 7, 1943. (See below this date.)

Housing: Private construction-Continued.

Legislative history-Continued.
1943, July 7: To increase by $300,000,000 the amount authorized
by act of October 14, 1940, adding section 313, providing for
removal of war housing within 2 years (57 Stat. 387)_.

Strengthening of 2-year removal clause necessary (Cortright;
Lanham).

Page

257

257

Low-rent subsidized housing continuing need for public assistance
(Olson) ___

418

Management technique one of most valuable contributions_
Memphis Housing Authority: Features interesting tenants in private-
enterprise housing (Pomeroy).

137

122

New York City:

Low-rent project, amount of money available, extent, tenancy
eligibility (LaGuardia)‒‒‒‒

310

Number of apartments provided in 1942 compared with number
provided by Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Ecker) ___
Subsidized low-rent houses, number of families housed (La-
Guardia).

Subsidized low-rent projects, number of, number of dwelling
units, number of persons housed (LaGuardia) –
Summary of four types of developments: Old law cooperatives, sub-
sidized low-rent units, private operation (Parkchester and Stuy-
vesant Town) example (LaGuardia)-

New York State:

Amount outstanding in contracts for Government-subsidized hous-
ing when the war began and a "lid was put on public construc-
tion" (Evans; Lanham; Kilburn)-

Competition between public construction and private enterprise
(Kilburn; Evans).

299

Opposed (Pomeroy).

129

Post-war provision for demobilized war workers and servicemen a
Federal responsibility (Olson) ---

418

Private enterprise and cooperative activities--

136

Producers' Council, Inc., proposal 17 in its platform for post-war con-

construction____.

269

Responsibility is joint; Federal, State, and local (Pomeroy).

Questionable enterprise, abandonment advocated National Association
of Real Estate Boards.

Social and political menace (Nelson).

44

122

44

Special study in Wall Street Journal of August 17, 1943, cited__
Subsidies, discontinuance of advocated (Nelson).

151

44

Syracuse Housing Authority: Security in home ownership plan--‒‒
Tax exemption:

128

Payment by Federal Government to municipalities in lieu of taxes;
American Municipal Association proposal---
Principal criticism of private enterprise (Kincaid).

418

491

Unemployment absorption capacity, comparison with private enter-
prise (Outland; Nelson) __

49

Unemployment and post-war public housing (Wilson).

12

Use of public funds for erection of housing and public ownership of
housing projects discouraged (Whitlock).

287

Wartime: Lanham Act, October 14, 1940. (See above Defense housing

and legislative history, this date.)

Value of projects suspended until after the war (Pomeroy).
Way to urban redevelopment pointed by public housing-

126

136

Hunter, Croil, president of Northwest Airlines: Statement, December 14,
1943__

160-161

Hydrogenation of coal: Industrial possibilities (Johnson; Kaiser; Lan-
ham)

Increasing population (Walsh, Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions)

609

Incentives-Continued.
Private enterprise:

Contract cancelation, payment, prompt and substantially complete,
to allow quick reinvestment and conversion (Post-war Economic Page
Advisory Council of Chicago) –

Exemption from payment of full income taxes on earnings of
private industry devoted to enterprises of general public signifi-
cance. (Post-war Economic Advisory Council of Chicago)----
Investment in corporate equities; incentives lacking due to de-
velopment of tax structure_.

Large families; housing Sweden's policy an example (Lanham).
Mortgage insurance, investment by private enterprise in federally
insured equities (Kincaid) –

494

495

279

617

490

Special incentives which can only be provided by the National Gov-
ernment, advocated (Harrington)__

482

Tax modification, New York State redevelopment law tax morato-
rium feature (Capozzoli; Kincaid)__.

491

Research:

Subsidizing research three times over present annual amount----
Urban rehabilitation:

610

Level in 20 years in Great Britain and the United States, J. M. Keynes'
forecast

615

45, 50

Inflation: Real-estate prices (Nelson) –

In-Migrants:

California problem in three overindustrialized areas-San Francisco
Bay area, Los Angeles, and San Diego (Jeidels).

Chicago area--

465-466

478

75

413

598

Federal works reduce transciency (Outland).
In-migrant population, a National, not a State, problem (Olson).
Population distribution; War Manpower Commission basic authority__
Return of to original homes, studies on; inquiry (Lanham; Foreman;
Outland; Manasco) --

San Diego Chamber of Commerce census of intention of in-migrant
workers; summary (Hays) -

75

679-681

Installment financing: Post-war adjustment help, Bank of America and--- 471
Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences: President-elect. (See Fleet, Reu-
ben H.)
Insurance:

Mortgages, Federal Housing Administration. (See Mortgage insur-
ance.)

War damage (National Association of Real Estate Boards) __
Interest Rate: Insured mortgages and Government bonds (Pomeroy).
International City Managers' Association: Survey of financial reserves
established by 92 representative cities; cited_

Interstate Trade Barriers: Free exchange of farm products interfered
with by (Johnstone; O'Neal) __

Investment Bankers Association of America: President, John C. Folger.
(See Folger; John Clifford.)

11

127

147

237-238

457-473

James, Albert W., mayor of Wilmington, Del. (See Wilmington, Del.)
Jeidels, Otto, vice president, Bank of America National Trust and Savings
Association, San Francisco, Calif.: Statement, February 8, 1944___
Johnson, Calvin D., (Ill.), member, House Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee:

Johnson, Calvin D. (Ill.)—Continued.

Page

Railroads, shifting of rolling stock to Europe for replacement..
Risk capital in construction industry; inquiry.

445, 446

657

Slum clearance idea, opposed to--.

657

Sinall house ownership loans advocated___.

657

Vertical integration of Federally financed public construction opera-
tion----

Work Projects Administration, repetition opposed

Johnston, Eric A., president, Chamber of Commerce of the United States:

19*

9

National Recovery Act represents a program of force.

Organization of the construction industry-

Post-war peak in construction industry, duration of

25

320

Undertaking to raise living standards recognized as the great frontier
for tomorrow.......

Johnstone, Alan, general counsel, Federal Works Agency: Provisions of
long-term urban redevelopment credits: a statement; March 2, 1944_---
Kaiser, Henry J.:

Statement February 3, 1944_.

35

696

441-456

"We are not planning how we can lay men off, we are planning how we
can keep them employed"-.

Kaiser Plants:

Labor turn-over and housing relationship (Capozzoli).
Steel mill at Fontana, Calif., hospital facilities--
Women in Kaiser shipyards (Kaiser) –

Kansas City, Mo.:

Employment absorption plans (Bell) –.

444

12-13
455-456

452, 454

211

208, 209

Planning activities voluntary survey by businessmen (Bell)----
Post-war public works program; financial and employment situation
summarized; Federal assistance required; letter of mayor February
15, 1944; text_.

Ib., status as of January 1, 1944.

328-329

365

Study on economic future of metropolitan area published; cited.
Kauffman, A. I., mayor of Lakewood, Ohio. (See Lakewood, Ohio.)
Kelly, Edward J., mayor of Chicago: letter to Hon. Fritz G. Lanham, Feb-
ruary 7, 1944; text_.

209

473

Kelly, Jack: Mentioned_.

249

Kelly, Osmund, mayor of Flint, Mich. (See Flint, Mich.)

Kern County, Calif., Board of Supervisors: Chairman. (See Noon, A. W.)
Keynes, John M.: Income level in Great Britain and the United States in
20 years; forecast_

Kilburn, Clarence E. (N. Y.), member House Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee:

Competition in New York State between State and private industry
in matter of housing; inquiry_-_-

Coordination of all organizations engaged in post-war planning in New

615

York State_

Federal Housing Administration, its abolition; inquiry.
Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance_

299

208-209

259

599

New York State post-war planning over all organization; inquiry-- 296,301
Risk capital in development of new industries; inquiry.

606-607

Kincaid, H. Evert, executive director Chicago Plan Commission, post-war
housing problem

489-491