The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-25
June To See 100000
Moved dFron Slu1ns
Approximately 10000 Units
To Be Completed BY
Thut Time

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600 persons will have been removed
from slums into USHA-aided low-rent
public housing projects by next June,
lis was estimated today by Nathan
Straus, Administrator Of the United
States Housing Authority. And all of
them will be paying monthly rentals
for new, safe and sanitary homes that
will be approximately the same they
were compelled to pay for substand-
ard dwellings, or even lower, he as
serted.
Approximately 10000 dwelling units
in projects constructed in the present
USHA slum-clearance program will
have been completed by June, Mr..
Straus said. He estimated that an
average of $500 families, or 5000 per-
sons, will be moved each month into
projects reaching completion during
the first six months of the year.
The approximately $4,000 persons
who will have new and decent homes
by next June in projects constructed
in the present USHA program will
augment about II 600 men, women
and children Of low-income families
now living in 40 public housing pro-
jects built by the PWA Housing Di-
vision and turned over to the USHA.
Approved monthly rentals for
USHAaided projects average about
$19.75, including charges for utilities
such as water, heat, gas and cleo
tricity. Without these extras, the
average shelter rent is about $500
month. The monthly shelter rents
average as low as $3.50 for complete
home in the South to top of $20.50
for a dwelling in the North.
| With more than Al 900 USHA-aided
dwelling units scheduled to go under
construction during the first six
months of the current year, there will
be total Of about 100000 either un-
der construction or completed by the
end of June, Mr.. Straus announced
This will be approximately 70fo of
the total of 100000 decent low-rent
homes for low-income families that
are projected in the current USHA
program.
At the present time in the USHA
slum-clearance and low-rent housing
) program, there are 1875 projects either
under construction or completed and
!, designed to provide safe and sanitary
!, homes for IA ,451 low-income families
, now living in unfit habitations. By the
end of June an additional 81 projects
: will be under way.
, The Al 900 USHA- aided dwellings to
) go under construction during the first
: six months of 1910 will provide direct
employment at the sites for about
117,900 men. Their wages will amount
to about 100000 Construction ma
terials will cost around ST. 100000.
: Volume of construction, so import
, ant to general business recovery and
, stabilization, contributed by the
5 USHA slum-clearance program stands
out in bold relief, Mr.. Straus asserted,
; alongside the residential construction
by private capital and enterprise. He
pointed out that statistics compiled by
, the United States Department of La
Dor show that the total number of
: dwelling units of all types for which
5 building permits were issued in the
5 United States last year was 465,C00.
Of these, 54,941 were homes in $50
USHA-aided public housing projects
put into construction in 1889.
The current USHA program will
5 include about 435 projects in approXi-
: mately 200 communities. To date,
USHA loan contracts totaling $780,
911 900, representing 900 Of $701,-
1000 total estimated cost of 39S
projects, have been approved for $50
, communities. Commitments, including
loan contracts and earmarkings, for
, projects in the present program now
total $676,S95, ,OC0, which is within less
than $20,000,0C0 Of funds available
for loaning under the present Con-
: gressional authorization.
With the completion Of the 435 pub
lie housing projects in the current
USHA program, it is estimated that
approximately 512,COO building trades
: jobs will have been provided on the
sites in about 200 communities. Wages
: for this work will total around $685.
100000. approximately $280,C00,CCO
/, also will be expended for construction
= materials for the 100000 new fit
homes to be provided for lowincome
! American families at rentals they can
! afford to pay.
The current slum-clearance and law
I rent public housing program would be
virtually doubled by an amendment to
O the United States Housing Act to au-
, thorize additional USHA loan funds
! which is now pending in Congress.