Milford chronicle., 1934-11-16
LAY PLANS FOR
BETTER HOUSING
IN THIS SECTION
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expenditure of approximately $40
per capita for repair and improve
ment work, and at that time there
was no financing plan such as now
available under the National Hous-
ing Act.
should we be able to do in our
\ city only as well as those earlier
4 campaigns, we would give rise TO a
tremendous increase in all lines Of
I business, for every dollar taken out
of idle savings and paid in wages
multiplies many times i'm the course
of year.
Our campaign will also be most
| helpful. Chairman HOlzmueller
pointed out, "in relieving distress
among the unemployed. APPROX
mately One-third of all families now
on the relief rolls i'm our city are
the families Of workers normally
engaged i'm building. Il is estimated
that for every building tradesman
put back to work, on the average,
family of four can be taken off the
relief rolls.
with winter coming on, this
means a reduction i'm relief expendi-
lures which later will reflect itself
in lowered taxes.
Il know the people of Milford will
get behind this campaign and hack
il to the limit 1t is a real UppOrtun-
ity for us to improve local business
conditions, to relieve distress, and
to increase property values and
beautify the city.
There is a real need for modern
izatiOn work. Too much of it has
been too long delayed during the
depression. The value of many prop
critics will be seriously jeopardiZed
unless this work is undertaken inn
mediately.
we will urge no property owner I
to undertake repairs or improve
ments who is not fully able To do so, |
or unless the improvements are /
needed or desirable. We will urge. I.
however, every property owner who I
is financially able TO 30 ahead i'm .
mediately.
There are mainy reasons"
Chairman HOlzmueller stated, why /
property owners should make im-
prOvements now. Prices of building
materials and labor are at fair lev
els. If anything. they are likely to /
increase as business turns upward. /
This means that improvements made
now will increase in value.
AS far as the home owner is con-
cerned, I am sure nc will agree with
me that no expenditure he can make
will return greater dividends in sat
isfaction than money spent on his
home.
Most of us are prone to think of
the casualties of the past four or
five depression years in terms of its
human victims, and rightly so, but
there have been other victims. Hun
dreds of homes, apartments, and
other buildings i'm our city have suf-
fered seriously from lack of normal
care and attention,
Owners have wanted To take care
of their properties but they have not
been able to because of cuitailed in
come or lack of credit.
"The National Housing Act has
provided the means by which they
IAN so ahead II will he the purpose
If our Better Housing Campaign to
inform them how they may secure
he money to do this work.
II am sure that il is not neccs-
iary TO tell property owners Of the
Importance of maintaining property. 4
Repairs which may he minor at the +,
if too long deferred will
'Ost a great deal later on. h
your home, your apartment &
your store, may represent
major portion of your lile's saw
ngs. II is the part of wisdom to pro-
ect il and preserve it,"
All of the persons interested in
his campaign are urged to attend d
Meeting on Monday, November 10, at a
80 p. M. in the Milford Commun- /
y Building. Willard Springer, head
f the Housing Committee, will be V
resent at this meeting and details l.
the campaign will he fully eX-
lained. Painters, carpenters, plas- a
arers, stone masOns, bricklayers, as u
,ell as lumbermen and hardware N
callers are especially urged to be d
resent.
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