Housing Statistics Handbook

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Page 44 - A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.
Page 104 - Department of Commerce, National Income Supplement to Survey of Current Business, July 1947.
Page 89 - A household is defined as a group of persons living together, with common housekeeping arrangements, in the same living quarters.
Page 44 - Although ordinarily a household will consist of a head, his wife, and their children, the persons in a household may or may not be related by blood or marriage.
Page 157 - June 27, 1934), and as further amended by an act to provide additional home-mortgage relief, to amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, and the National Housing Act, and for other purposes (Public, No.
Page 155 - It establishes policies, issues regulations, and supervises the operations of the Federal Home Loan Bank System, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Savings and Loan System.
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Page 73 - As might be expected, the largest numbers of nonwhite nonfarm families, both in absolute numbers and proportionally, were found in the South Atlantic, East South Central, and West South Central States.
Page 158 - ... public housing. The act undertook: To provide financial assistance to the States and political subdivisions thereof for the elimination of unsafe and insanitary housing conditions, for the eradication of slums, for the provision of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of low income, and for the reduction of unemployment and the stimulation of business activity, [and] to create a United States Housing Authority. . . ,23 A number of amendatory acts have been passed since 1937. Chief...
Page 157 - AN ACT To provide emergency relief with respect to home mortgage indebtedness, to refinance home mortgages, to extend relief to the owners of homes occupied by them and who are unable to amortize their debt elsewhere, to amend the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, to increase the market for obligations of the United States and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the. United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Home Owners

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