CHAPTER II. THE NEW LOW-RENT PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM A. Major Features of the New Program... B. How the New Program Differs from the Old... CHAPTER IV. EXISTING LOW-RENT HOUSING_ B. Removing Ineligible Families INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE In Part One of the Third Annual Report of the HHFA, the Housing and Home Finance Administrator, as the Government's chief housing officer and Chairman of the National Housing Council, presents summary data on the Government's Role in Housing as well as information on housing activities in general. This part of the report includes data on the over-all activities of the HHFA as well as details on the activities of the Office of the Administrator. Specific detail on the programs and activities of the Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal Housing Administration, and the Public Housing Administration will be found in Part Two, Three, and Four, respectively of this report. The material presented in Part One is in two major sections: Housing in 1949 and The Government Role. It is preceded by a chronology of significant events in housing in 1949, and is followed by three appendixes: Appendix A contains various statistical and fiscal tables-in addition pertinent statistical tables are included in the text; Appendix B lists Executive messages and Federal and State legislation affecting housing in 1949; Appendix C lists HHFA publications. CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN HOUSING, 1949 1-1 Housing Administrator announces establishment of technical research organization authorized by Housing Act of 1948 virtually complete. 1-5 Housing Act of 1949 introduced in Senate as S. 138. This Act establishes national housing objectives and policies to be followed. 1-17 National leaders of all groups who help produce and finance homes and apartments meet in Washington to review final plans for 1949 Economy Housing Program. 1-22 2-7 Administrator announces arrangements completed for National Research Council to act in advisory capacity to HHFA in its research program on standardized dimensions and building techniques. Local meetings to forward Economy Housing Programs started; meetings scheduled in 65 key cities. 2-12 Government agencies concerned with veterans' housing jointly issue publication, For the Home-Buying Veteran. 2-18 FHA instructs its field offices that "no application for mortgage insurance shall be rejected solely on the ground that the subject property or type of occupancy might affect market attitudes toward other properties in the immediate neighborhood * * * (nor) because of different types of occupancy regardless of whether or not it is in violation of restrictive covenant 2-21 2-26 3-4 3-9 3-10 * * New York legislature authorizes referendum at general election on increasing State loan funds for low-rent housing from $435,000,000 to $735,000,000 and increasing maximum yearly subsidy total from $13,000,000 to $25,000,000. HHFA asks Attorneys General of all States to aid in campaign to modernize local building codes. FHA offers to analyze cooperative housing projects in advance of assured financing to assist program. Nebraska authorizes insurance companies to make direct investment in housing. Arkansas authorizes municipalities to adopt technical building codes and regulations by reference. 3-10 North Dakota authorizes insurance companies to invest in real estate. 3-21 Administrator announces 50,000 to 60,000 representatives of housing industry in about 200 cities and towns have attended meetings of the Economy Housing Program and exchanged experiences in cost-cutting methods. 3-24 -25 HHFA and Department of Commerce sponsor meeting of six code sponsoring organizations to form coordinating committee with purpose of framing agreement on single national plumbing code. Organizations represented were: American Standards Association; Building Officials Conference of America; Western Plumbing Officials Conference; American Society of Sanitary Engineers; Conference of State Sanitary Engineers; Uniform Plumbing Code Committee. This meeting was the sixth official action to modernize building codes since January 1. |