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WO questions are constantly asked about the Government's housing experiment: How is it affecting private industry? Is it likely to be altered by a change in the Federal Government? In answer to the first question, there is no simple clash between private and public interest. But there is appar- ently a certain amount of conflict among various private interests. For instance, some landlords object that when the Government builds low- rent houses with unemployed labor at a wage of approximately 50 or 60 cents an hour, the slum landlord is forced to make improvements in his “invest- ment property” in order not to lose tenants, and he must do so at & higher labor cost. On the other hand, the private building industry benefits from these repair jobs in the old slums, as well as from P. W. A. contracts, and the city taxpayer stands to gain be- cause demolition or renovation of the slums will mean lower city costs in free hospitalization, fire and police protection. There has never been any profit | for the private building industry in | the slums. Dr. Edith Abbott in her ‘book “Tenements of Chicago,” shows that hardly any new buildings or re- pairs were made in Chicago slums in the period from 1919 to 1929, in spite of the great need for repairs each year in buildings overcrowded and badly constructed. This is equally true of slums in other cities. 6 Projects in New York City. All the evidence =0 far collected goes to show that Government-subsidized slum clearance and rehousing has a stimulating effect on the private build- ing industry. There are six low-cost housing projects in New York City—two national slum clearance projects, one municipal project in collaboration with | W.P. A, two P. W. A, limited dividend | | projects and one limited dividend proj- | ect financed by R. F. C. under super- | vision of the State Housing Board. To date, 212 new developments pri- vately owned or financed have begun building near these six projects. They include 146 new stores, the renovation of 22 old stores, the construction of 3 moving picture houses, 14 ga- rages and 4 gas stations. The in- crease of taxable values through these | private undertakings will add notably to the city's revenues. At Alta Vista, Va, a limited-divi- dend project of 50 houses had a re- markable stimulating effect on pri- vate building enterprise. Property owners began to renovate and build as soon as the project was under way. Today there are many new business buildings as well as homes and, with better housing conditions, the popu- lation has almost doubled. Two fac- tories have trebled employment. Ever since 1923 England has had an elaborate public housing program that is to run until 1939. Far from discouraging private building, the pro- gram appears to have had exactly the opposite effect. According to the Building Trades Employers’ Associa- tion, England and Wales together have built four times as many houses as the United States in the five-year “Of "thb | total 1,500,000 houses provided in the last five years, nearly 1,100,000 were built by private industry without State aid.” Building Aided British Jobs. Since 1918 private building com- panies in England have erectéd apart- ments and dwellings sufficient to re- house one-fourth the families in the country, but these dwellings were for | the middle and upper income groups. The only new houses for low-income | families were subsidized by the gov- ernment. According to the June re- port of the United States Senate Committee on Education and Labor, this rapid expansion of the building industry in Great Britain, under a policy that combined public subsidy and private enterprise, took up the slack in employment and helped that country to weather the world-wide de- pression. In contrast to this British record, America’s unsubsidized building in- dustry suffered greatly during the same period. In 1929 there were a little fewer than 2,500,000 men at- tached to the bailding industry. In 1935, with employment in other in- dustries at 80 or 90 per cent normal, there remained 1,732,000 unemployed building trades men, or about 74 per cent of all attached to the industry. In addition to these, there were a vast number of men unemployed in trades allied to the building industry, producing building materials. Alto- gether, these men accounted for fully half the total unemployed in the dur- able goods industries in 1935. In 1936 there are signs of improve- ment. The Federal Home Loan Bank figures for private building in June were 51 per cent above the for May and two and & half times greater than those for June, 1935, June, 1936, saw greater building ac- tivity in America than any month since the Autumn of 1929, especially in New York and New Jersey. Yet this is the year in which the majority of Government housing projects have been under active construction. Ob- viously, they have not yet had any ill effects on the private building industry so far. $1,500 Yearly hy Necessary. As long as rents of the Govern- ment housing projects are kept down and the tenants xre restricted to those with incomes no more than five times the rent, it is difficult to see how they can compete with privately financed buildings, since the latter [has never attempted to provide new homes for the lowest ihcome groups. At present prices decent dwelling quarters are not available for a fam- ily with five children and an income for an average between $6 and $8 per room per month. At Techwood and first houses, the only ones finished, the average is $7.39 and $6.05, respec- tively, and tenants have been most carefully restricted to those whose incomes are no more than five times the rent. This latter regulation is mandatory under the terms of the GeorgerHealy bill recently passed by Congress. Evidently this law had its origin in reports from abroad, especially Eng- lend, that well-to-do persons took ad- vantage of the opportunity to move into the new subsidized government houses at lower rentals, thus crowding out the low income workers for whom the houses were built. It must be kept in mind that it is the upper layer of the low income group that the present scheme is designed to reach. That is, the group of semi-skilled aad unskilled workers who are steadily employed and who can pay a low rent regularly, but who cannot afford adequate, sanitary homes under present conditions. The still lower income group—the casual laborers, the unemployed and unem- ployables, widows with large families, social misfits, families handicapped with disease and other special cases— constitutes & housing problem that has not even been considered in this | L, emergency program. Change in Policy Unlikely. In answer to the second question, we may say that a change in admin- istration is unlikely to mean a change in housing policy, although the form | may change no matter which side wins. There seems to be & disposition among leaders of both parties to favor the transference of housing schemes from Federal to city and State author- ities. Even the Federal officers now In charge of the housing program agree with city housing officials in New York and Chicago that there has been ex- cessive centralization under the pres- ent scheme. This was largely due to | the lack of legal machinery providing for co-operation between national and local governments. To wait for legis- lation would have delayed the program EDUCATIONAL. DRAFTING ALL BRANCHES START NOW Columbia “Tech” Institute 1319 F St. N.W. MEL. 5626 Send for Catalogue Wuhlnol College of Law Coeducational Forty-first Year Fall Term Begins September 21 2000 G St. N.W. 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Now that zhole funds are all mitted and the jects under way, future housing plnnl are at & standstill for the time being. ‘The need for legislation is felt strongly and there is a trend toward the European method of government- controlled subsidies to private industry, with local authorities taking a much larger part than at present in America. In future, Federal and local funds will probably be raised by bond issues. As the Committee for Economic Re» covery sums up the situation: In view of the housing shortage, & program of the necessary magnitude is too vast to be undertaken by the Government. But the low income groups cannot be housed unless national and local gov- ernments subsidize private industry. Both Parties Recognize Need. As this committee is made up of in- dustrialists belonging to both parties, its report is an indication that both the major parties recognize the need of slum clearance and feel that this can be accomplished only if Uncle Sam goes into partnership with private building industry. In this connection it is interesting to recall that all attempts to make housing & party question in foreign countries have failed. Since the war Conservatives and Liberals everywhere have tended to subsidize low rental EDUCATIONAL. Practical Trade Course ELECT-A—-IM-" RICITY Theery, D. C. Code . Est.. Armatures ech” Institute 1319 F St. NW. MEt. 5626 Send for Catalogue Visit Student's Ex- hibit! Simplified Instruction— 1747 R. L. Ave. Felix Mahony NAtional 2656 | Director building. Indeed, in Europe a housing Ppolicy does not seem to be considered any more “socialistic” than public schools. 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