Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-05
HOME FARLEY ENDS
AFTER APPROVING
HOOVER BANK PLAN
Plans Made to Put in Use
New Ideas Advanced by
Experts.
CONTINUING COMMITTEE
TO CORRELATE RESULTS
National Support for Legislation to
Garry Out Proposal of Pres
ident Forecast.

With objections to the Hoover mort
gage discount banking proposal over
ridden by plenary action taken unex-
pectedly last night. the Presidents
Conference on Home Building and
Home Ownership closed today, with
plans prepared for carrying into prac-
tjce, so far as possible. the findings
and recommendations Of the confer
enCe experts.
This viii be sought by formation of
a continuing committee, which will
COrrellate the results Of the conference,
seeking popular adoption of new meth
obs and ideas Culled from the results
OF the year Of study.
A spontaneous movement. unpro-
grammed and unexpected late last
night lined up the conference in solid
support for the Presidents home loan
bank plan.
Opinions on Details Clash.
This came after a clash of opinions
that developed in a melting of the Fl
nancmg Committee over details of the
formal findings of the committee and
the proposed methods of easing the
financing of home ownership and
building.
1t had not been planned for the del
egate body to take any action in adopt
ing programs. but at the night general
session, a resolution offered from the
floor was passed. placing the more than
1000 delegates on record for the plan.
Afterward, delegates and representa-
tives Of the National Association of
Real Estate Boards freely forecast that
the action would mean national support
for legislation to carry out the PreSi-
dents plan.
The difficulties over financing meth
DDS came from the suggestion of the
Finance Committee which sought sec
Ond mortgage financing at lower inter-
est rates, pursuant to Mr.. Hoover's idea.
Best Voices Objection.
william E. Best. president Of the
United States Building & Loan League,
voiced objection to the inclusion Of
second mortgages in the plan. He said
his associations now are providing the
type of financial aid for home buyers
contemplated by the Hoover system of
discount banks.
The resolution adopted by the con-
ference was introduced by John Sprunt
Hill, said to be a prominent Democrat,
of Durham, N c., and this prompted
Harry S. KiSsell, president of the Ma
tional Association Of Real Estate Boards,
TO declare today that the plan has
quickly passed "the partisan stage"
since it was announced three weeks ago.
Hopes for Practical Results.
Secretary Wilbur, co-chairman of the
conference with Secretary Of Commerce
Lamont, announced at the general ses-
sion last night the hope for carrying
the results Of the conference studies into
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mittee
It is hoped, he added, that in about a
year a second conference can be held.
Praising the work already done, he
said the conference had opened up a
number of questions of vital Importance
to the welfare of the Nation. The con-
tributions from the various committees"
he said, have been outstanding"
Secretary Wilbur outlined the follow
ing as certain fundamentals as the find
ings of the committees of experts during
the past year:
l. Each city and community should
have master plan.
q Each city should be Zoned.
g. All new homes, irrespective Of the
income of the family can and should
be Of good design and sound con-
struction.
4. Soundly built homes can and should
be rendered available to all home buyers
5. Home ownership should be pos
sibility at some time in the life Of every
thrifty family.
Adequate System of Credit.
6. An adequate system of credit for
the financing of homes should be es-
tablished.
7. Old homes should be brought up to
standard
8. SlumS and blighted areas should
be eliminated
9. Industry, so far as practical, should
be decentraliZed
10. Well advised, large-scale housing
operations should be facilitated.
II. Homes should be freed from eX-
ceSSive burdens of taxation.
II. Beauty as well as utility should be
made available within the home and its
surroundings.
10. The conveniences, protection and
opportunities enjoyed by the city dwell
eTS should be rendered available as rap
idly as possible to the residents Of rural
districts.
Il Work centers for household opera
tons should be efficiently planned and
equipped
IS. There is need Of better framed
and bette. enforced legislation with re-
gard TO all types Of housing for the
protection of the home and the com
munity
l6. The need Of development Of fur
ther research. information service and
public education
II. The promotion Of home owner
ship and better homes is the preroga-
tive OF all civic leaders and Of citizens
Business Men Show Interest.
Encouraging evidence of increasing
Interest in good housing and home own
erShip on the part Of business men was
reported to the conference by a COM
mittee headed by Harry A Wheeler
Chicago, past president of the United
States Chamber Of Commerce.
The committee recommended a num-
Der Of specific steps by which it was
deemed business men can more effec-
lively promote coed housing. These in
cluded action to promote adequate State
enabling legislation and local ordi-
nanCes as they relate to city planning
and coming, the subdivision of land
building, housing and sanitary codes
and the equitable assessment of prop
erty for both general taxation and spe-
clal assessment.
Detached House Still Ideal.
The strong tendency to think of the
detached Single-family house as the
ideal home still persists, it was found
by the Committee on Home Ownership
and Leasing, in spite of the trend to-
ward apartment houses in the larger
cities.
For instance, this group, headed by
Ernest T. Trigg of Philadelphia, re-
ported that the proposition of homes
owned in Delaware as a whole in
creased steadily from 1862 per cent in
300 to 5l9 per cent in 1880. In New
Hampshire, owned homes decreased
from $50 per cent in 1900 to 498 pei
cent in 1920, tut rebounded to 54.3 pei
cent in 1880.