knowledge. Married personnel living in Government quarters on post will complete Section I below only. Inclosure I-For married personnel who live in a house in Fort Bragg-Fayetteville vicinity. Section I-To be completed by home owners only. Section II-To be completed by home renters only. Inclosure II-For married personnel who live in a trailer in Fort Bragg-Fayetteville vicinity. Inclosure III-For married personnel whose families do not live in the vicinity of Fort Bragg-Fayetteville. SECTION I General Information To Be Answered by All Married Male Personnel a. Live off post and travel to and work work? yes, complete Section II below and Inclosures 1 or 2, whichever is applicable.) b. Do you live in BOQ or EM barracks, with your family away from the vicinity of Fort Bragg too far to commute daily to and from work? No. (If yes, complete Inclosure 3, disregard Inclosures 1 and 2.) c. Do you live in government family quarters on post? Yes. No. (If Yes. Yes No. SECTION II To Be Completed by All Married Male Personnel Who Live Off Post in the Fort Bragg-Fayetteville Vicinity 1. Do you live in a (check one): House (Complete Inclosure I)? Trailer (Complete Inclosure II) ? 2. Do you (check one): Rent the house or trailer you live in? Own or are paying for the house or trailer you live in? 3. Do you live within thirty (30) minutes traveling distance or within a fifteen (15) mile radius of Fort Bragg? Yes. No. 4. How long does it take you to travel to or from work? way only). --- Minutes (one 5. Approximately how many miles is it from your home to Fort Bragg? Miles (one way only). INCLOSURE I To Be Completed by Personnel Owning or Buying a Home in Vicinity of Fort Bragg-Fayetteville Vicinity (Trailer Occupants Complete Inclosure II) Section I-To be completed by home owners only. Section II-To be completed by home renters only. SECTION I To Be Completed by Personnel Owning or Buying a Home in Vicinity of Fort Bragg-Fayetteville, North Carolina 1. Is your home fully paid for? Yes No. 2. If permanent on-post quarters had been made available, would you have purchased your home? Yes No. 20066-58-No. 86 50 3. Did you buy your home because you could not get government quarters or a satisfactory rental? __. Yes No. 4. Did you buy your home for an investment? 5. Do you plan to sell your home when you leave Fort Bragg? Yes No. Yes 6. Did you buy your home because you plan to retire in this area? No. 7. What are your monthly expenditures? (a) Fixed monthly payments $----; (b) Maintenance (12 Mo. average) $----; (c) Heat $----; (d) Electricity $----; (e) Water $----; (f) Sewage $_ -; (g) Taxes (annual) $----; (h) Others $----; (i) Total Utilities; $‒‒‒‒ (c, d, e, f, g, and h). Total monthly expenses $----. 8. Are you provided with garbage pickup service? Yes 9. How many rooms are there in your home? ; Bedrooms rooms No. ; Name other 10. Do you consider your home to be of suitable design and construction for general livability and does it present a good appearance (interior and exterior)? Yes No. . No. e. Inside toilets ---- Yes d. Individual inside bathroom (not shared with another family) f. Adequate water pressure Yes Yes No. No. g. Adequate supply hot and cold running water Yes 13. Do you consider your home structurally safe to live in? ---- Yes 15. Does the main entrance of your bathroom open to a hall? 16. Do you have to go through one bedroom to another? 17. Is your home located near a sewage-disposal plant, waste dump, industrial exhaust or swampy stagnant tract present obnoxious odors; located near a railroad, heavy industrial shop buildings creating excessive noise, dust or hazard to you or your family? No. (If yes, explain below.) Yes 18. Does the location of your home present extreme inconvenience and difficulty in daily commuting with respect to your duties? No. (If yes, explain) Yes No. INCLOSURE I To Be Completed by Personnel Renting a Home (House) in Fort Bragg f. Others $ g. Total utilities (b, c, d, e, f) $----; Totals monthly expense $22. How many rooms are there in your rental? ; Bedrooms other rooms Name 23. Is your rental of suitable design and construction for general liveability and does it present a good appearance? (interior and exterior) Yes No. b. Adequate kitchen cabinets d. Individual inside bathroom (not shared with another family) k. Safe electric wiring Yes Yes No. No. No. No. 1. Adequate floor space and is it properly distributed? 25. Do you pay extra for the use of cook stove, refrigerator, etc.? No. If yes, give details___. 30. Does the main entrance of your bathroom open to a hall? No. Yes Yes ... No. 32. Is your rental located near a sewage-disposal plant, waste dump, industrial exhaust or swampy stagnant tract presenting obnoxious odors; located near a railroad, heavy industrial shop buildings creating excessive noise, dust, or hazard to you or your family? -- Yes --- No. (If yes, explain) 33. Does the location of your rental present extreme inconvenience and difficulty in daily commuting with respect to your duties? If yes, explain INCLOSURE II This Inclosure To Be Completed by all Married Personnel Living in Trailers in Fort Bragg-Fayetteville Vicinity 1. Is your trailer (check one): On post 2. Are you (check one): Renting trailer for trailer (monthly payments)? Off post Own (fully paid for) Paying ft. long; 3. What are you paying for: Rent of trailer (if rental) $. 6. Does your trailer have inside plumbing for: ft. wide. Name rooms and number a. Kitchen facilities Yes No. No. 7. If you own trailer or are paying for one, did you purchase the trailer before or -- after you arrived at Fort Bragg (check one). 8. Do you consider your trailer adequate housing for you and your family? Yes No. 9. Would you sell or rent out your trailer (owners only) if adequate housing would be provided on post? Yes No. 10. Did you buy your trailer because adequate on-post or off-post housing could not be found? Yes No. INCLOSURE III To Be Completed by All Male Married Personnel Whose Families Do Not Live in the Fort Bragg-Fayetteville Vincinity. 1. Do your dependents live more than fiifty (50) miles away from Fort Bragg? Yes No. If no, give approximate mileage (one way) to your home. 2. Do your dependents live away from Fort Bragg-Fayetteville Area because adequate quarters cannot be found on or off post? ----Yes____No. 3. If adequate quarters were made available on post or in the vicinity of Fort Bragg within reasonable rental rates, would you move your family to this vicinity? No. (If no, state reason) Yes EXHIBIT 2 Testimony by John H. Arrington, Chief, Family Housing Division, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense, P. and I., Wednesday, May 9, 1956, before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives: * * * That greatest care is being taken to avoid overbuilding. * To prevent harmful economic impact on local communities which have made available private rental housing. Congressman Albert Rains, Alabama, asked: The DD is not planning on building under title VII program any military housing where there is an adequate supply of private housing in the area to house military personnel. Mr. ARRINGTON. No, sir. Testimony before House Committee on Armed Services, Tuesday, May 15, 1956, Under Secretary of Army Finucane: We have a great responsibility not to overbuild. We want to avoid that more than anything else. General Barney, Director of Installations: We are keenly anxious not to overbuild. Mr. BECKER. Mr. Chairman, I would just like to ask one question. The CHAIRMAN. Yes, Mr. Becker. Mr. BECKER. The gentleman is a realtor? Mr. BARRETT. Yes, sir. Mr. BECKER. The rent that you just mentioned of $90 a month, of course, is rather high rent for military personnel. Is that based on a fair valuation for income on a property? Mr. BARRETT. Sir, the rent that I mentioned was $75 a month, on a two-bedroom brick house. Mr. BECKER. I am talking about the rents that the Army personnel are going to be expected to pay. Is that based on a fair rental, a fair return on investment for the property, or is it excessive? Mr. BARRETT. $90 per month for a 5-room, nice, clean, 2-bedroom house that is worth from $11,000 to $13,000-is the going rate. Mr. BECKER. I didn't ask that. I asked is that a fair return on investment property? Mr. BARRETT. No, sir. Mr. BECKER. Or is it excessive? Mr. BARRETT. No, sir. Mr. BECKER. It is not a fair return. Mr. BARRETT. It is probably within the confines of fair. The old rule of thumb you know has been Mr. BECKER. I think you should answer the question, Is is excessive or is it fair? Mr. BARRETT. It is fair. Mr. BECKER. That is all. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much. Who is the next witness, Mr. Lennon? Mr. LENNON. Mr. Thompson, I think, wants to make a statement. The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Thompson. Mr. THOMPSON. My name is Paul Thompson. I am a realtor, a member of the firm of Thompson, McLean in Fayetteville. I have but one thing to say to this committee and that is that Capehart housing is gradually strangling the economic situation in Fayetteville. I do not handle rentals, so I am not directly affected. But I am indirectly affected because the economy of Fayetteville has been hit and hit hard by Capehart housing. We started with Wherry, we started out with 1,000 units. We ended up with 2,000 units. We started out with Capehart with 1,500. They come back and request 1,060. The reason that there isn't more rental in Fayetteville is because people are scared to death to try to invest a dollar in real estate, in the rental picture, in Fayetteville, with the threat of Capehart. The CHAIRMAN. Now, it was stated to the committee what you started out with. You started out with a very fine community of about ten or eleven thousand people until 1917 and in view of the fact that the Government spent one hundred or two hundred million dollars there and had a personnel running anywhere from 40,000 down to 27,000, you have now a population of about forty-five or fifty thousand people. Mr. THOMPSON. Agreed, sir. |