Evening star., 1935-06-30
HOUSING PROJECTS
|. UP TO ROOSEVELT
President to Decide on All
SIum Clearance as Re-
suit of Delays.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Fress,
The p. w. A. housing division
rounded out two years today with
but three Federal slum clearance
] projects under construction and two
others under contract.
Repeatedly because Of the slowness.
President Roosevelt Is to pass on all
future slum clearance projects.
The slum clearance work was
launched by Secretary Ickes, P. w.
A. administrator, on a so-called
limited dividend plan. Under this,
money was loaned to seven private
corporations for the construction Of
low cost housing projects.
Hackett Made Assistant.
After q year Of the limited dividend
projects, Robert D. Kofn, head Of the
housing division, resigned and Col.
Horatio B. Hackett took charge. A
few months ago, Ickes promoted
Hackett to be his assistant. A. r.
Clas then was named housing director.
Under Hackett and Clas the division
undertook Federal slum clearance
projects, but encountered delay in
acquiring sites.
In a report to Ickes, on the fiscal
years work ending today, Director
Clas said:
"The housing division started at
scratch on a totally new program for
which we had no technical guides to
follow.
For nearly year 1t tried to do
the job by interesting private initia-
tive in housing by limited dividend
corporations. -" Seven limited
dividend corporation housing projects
were started, Then we entered the
Federal program"
Progress information obtained from
the housing division shows:
That up to May 16. only $4,000, 900
had been actually expended on Fed
eral projects. and So, 600 900 on limited
dividend projects, although $1.9l3,o0o
was sent this week to Chicago to pay
for q site.
s1l0,000,000 Withdrawn.
OF the original $3.50 100000 allocat-
ed from p. w. A. funds two years ago,
$110.000,0 900 was withdrawn by Harry
L. Hopkins, relief administrator, for
direct relief last Winter.
President Roosevelt this week ear
marked $249, $50, 900 from the $4,000
600 900 work-relief fund for the divi-
sion. The division estimates that this,
with the unexpended balance from the
original ALLEGATION and that remain
ing from slo,971 900 allocated for linn
tied dividend projects, makes a total
Of around $2s4,000.000 available for
slum clearance work.
Armed with the new money, the di-
vision plans to push for most of the
seventy-odd projects for approval by
President Roosevelt and Hopkins, hop
ing to have them under way during
1896.
The three Federal projects actually
under construction are in Atlanta, Ga,
and Montgomery, Ala.
indianapolis Contract Lei.
Contracts have been let on a So
025,000 project at Indianapolis and
Cedar Central at Cleveland, costing
$3,27e, 900.
Other projects in various stages of
preparation are in New York, Chicago,
Cleveland. Cincinnati, Detroit, Mont
gomery, Louisville, Boston, Milwaukee,
Nashville and Washington, D. C. Ap-
proximately so more have been recon-
mended.
With the opening July ! Of the
Neighborhood Gardens Housing Corp.
project in ST. Louis, Secretary Ickes
said six of the limited dividend prof.
ects would be in operation. The sew
enth, the Boylan Realty Co. Develop
ment at Raleigh, N. c., Is under con-
struction. Others are the Hillside
Homes and Boulevard Gardens, in New
York City, the Euclid Housing Corp.
project in Euclid, Ohio, the Juniata
Park Housing Corp. development in
Philadelphia and Alta Vista in Vir-
ginia.