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N.H.Authority esNeedFor
 Added Units
Report Says 5000 Families Still Remain In City's
 Blighted Areas

city several times the amount col lected in taxes; that the high cost of bad housing includes loss of time due to industrial accidents, fire hazards, disqualification and crime; and that low rent housing is a definite con tributor to municipal economy, better citizenship employment, production and better business, is given i'll the third annual report of the New Haven Housing Authority.
 The report fully justifies the stand taken by the New Haven Gen. tral Labor Council and the Build ing Trades Council back in l937 for the elimination of the slum areas and the erection of low cost housing projects.
 Organized labor, of course, is proud of its : representative on the New Haven Housing Authority, Sen. Joseph, T. Rourke, vice-president of the Central Labor Council and business agent of Local B-9O, Elec- tricians Union.
 The City-Wide Council for Slum Clearance and Better Housing with Attorney Louis Feinmark as presi- dent, also aided in bringing about the Elm Haven, Quinnipiac Ter. race, and Farnam Courts projects.
 ACCIDENTS
 The National Safety Council has estimated the direct costs of occupa- tional accidents in 1888 as $65O,000,- 900. Since, the Authority believes that indirect or hidden costs are five times the direct costs, the final na- tiona1 bill was over $3,000,000000.
 The new projects will cut that fig ure down, according to the testimony of the Assistant Superintendent of the Travellers Insurance Company, Hartford, who was convinced, after much research, that "social environ ment has great deal to do with safe ty at work"
 The Housing Authority also quotes from a letter from the Director of Information of the National Safety Council, Tt goes without saying that a worker needs proper rest and the right kind of mental atmosphere to keep him in good mental and physical health"
 FROM CHIEF HEINZ
 Fire Chief Paul P Heinz has written that confiagration pOssi- bilities have been reduced. 'sOur city has been made better and safer place in which to live." he said. Add to that the closing of the Dixwe1 Avenue sub-police sta- ton and the lowering of juvenile delinquency.
 "The clearing out of sub-standard housing units-health hazards" Jos eph I. Linde, Health Officer of the City of New Haven, has testified, "tas definitely taken that much load off the shoulders of the Health De- partment."
 V.N.A.'s TESTIMONY
 The Visiting Nurse Association added eloquent testimony on sav- ings resulting from Elm Haven. Since November, 194O, when the project was opened, "A babies were born there, nine of them home de- liveries. In slums at least five of these nine would have been hos pital cases at a cost of $50 a de- livery to the city.
 The three projects will house 948 families on sites where 600 units, the great majority sub-standard, have been demolished. In many cases more than one family in former days lived in a unit, bringing up the figure of units replaced. On the site of the Ouinnipiac Terrace alongside the beautiful Quinnipiac river few dwell ings were demolished. Yet no one will argue the choice of this healthy, airy site for the families of working people.
 MORE HOUSING NEEDED
 The report pc 'nts out that 5000 families still remain in slum areas and that the three new projects are just a beginning. Elm Haven has made very helpful dent in the Dix well area and Farnam Courts, which will be ready for occupancy after January 1, reclaims an area in the Grand Avenue s1um section The third bad slum section in the city, "The Hi1l'', has not been touched as yet.
 At present there are no more funds to continue the good work, and the report states that this should be rectified and plans made for the post emergency period.