A BILL TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL HOUSING OBJECTIVE AND THE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES APRIL 7, 8, 11, 12, 25, 26, 27, 28, MAY 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, AND 9, 1949 Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency 2. BEFORE THE HEARINGS House, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 4009 A BILL TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL HOUSING OBJECTIVE AND THE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES APRIL 7, 8, 11, 12, 25, 26, 27, 28, MAY 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, AND 9, 1949 Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency BRENT SPENCE, Kentucky, Chairman PAUL BROWN, Georgia JESSE P. WOLCOTT, Michigan WRIGHT PATMAN, Texas RALPH A. GAMBLE, New York A. S. MIKE MONRONEY, Oklahoma FREDERICK C. SMITH, Ohio BROOKS HAYS, Arkansas JOHN C. KUNKEL, Pennsylvania ALBERT RAINS, Alabama HENRY 0. TALLE, Iowa FRANK BUCHANAN, Pennsylvania ROLLA C. MCMILLEN, Illinois ABRAHAM J. MULTER, New York CLARENCE E. KILBURN, New York CHARLES B. DEANE, North Carolina ALBERT M. COLE, Kansas GEORGE D. O'BRIEN, Michigan MERLIN HULL, Wisconsin CHASE GOING WOODHOUSE, Connecticut HARDIE SCOTT, Pennsylvania CLINTON D. MCKINNON, California DONALD W. NICHOLSON, Massachusetts WILLIAM J. HALLAHAN, Clerk II . Pago H. R. 4009. A bill to establish a national housing objective and the policy to be followed in the attainment thereof, to provide Federal aid to assist slum-clearance projects and low-rent public housing projects initiated by local agencies, to provide for financial assistance by the Secretary of Agriculture for farm housing, and for other purposes.- Alden, William, representing the National Association of Security Aronson, Arthur J., chairman, national housing committee, Jewish War Veterans of the United States. Barger, Harry S., representing the National Economic Council, Inc.- 514 413 362 Brown, Edgar G., director, National Negro Council. ('ain, Hon. Harry P., A United States Senator from the State of Campbell, Howard V., Solicitor's Office, Department of Agriculture - 190 Carlisle, Russell A., representing Paralymed War Veterans of America 164 Carter, Jack, national housing officer, Veterans of Foreign Wars---- 129 Chatters, Carl H., executive director, American Municipal Association. 673 Clorety, Joseph A., Jr., national vice chairman, American Veterans Cox, Lawrence M., president, National Association of Housing Offi- cials, and executive director, Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Cunningham, S. K., representing S. K. Cunningham & Co., Inc., D'Alesandro, Hon. Thomas, Jr., mayor of Baltimore, Md., and chair- 528 663 589 Edelman, John W., Washington representative, Textile Workers Union Egan, John Taylor, Public Housing Commissioner. 23, 56, 111 representing the mayor of New York City-- 111, 690 156 Fuller, George M., vice president, National Lumber Manufacturers Gerholz, Robert P., chairman, realtor's Washington committee of the National Association of Real Estate Boards.. Giesecke, Bertram E., chairman, national housing committee, the Gillespie, John J., chairman, United Veterans Council Housing Com- Goodman, Leo, director, CIO Committee on Housing 263 373 Gray, Richard J., president, building and construction trades depart- 521 |