National housing act : hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-third Congress, second session, on H.R. 9620, a bill to improve nation-wide housing standards, provide employment, and stimulate industry; to improve conditions with respect to home-mortgage financing, to prevent speculative excesses in new-mortgage investment, and to eliminate the necessity for costly second-mortgage financing, by creating a system of mutual mortgage insurance and by making provision for the organization of additional institutions to handle home financing; to promote thrift and protect savings; to amend the Federal home loan bank act ; to amend the Federal reserve act; and for other purposes, May 18, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, June 1, 2, 4, 1934