Evening star., 1942-02-24

struction proposal for the South
west, drawn up by Arthur Good
willie of the Home Owners Loan
Corp, the letter drafted at Sundays
conference continued:
Because of the scarcity of vacant
sites near the new in-town tempo
rary Office buildings, it would be
wise to undertake the rehabilitation
of nine squares as proposed by the
Goodwillie plan with which your
will be necessary to provide for
rehousing present occupants of these
nine squares as part of the project,
and because the reconditioning may
not be as rapid as new construction
on vacant lots, this project, whose
total cost is estimated to be s7,000,-
900, should be added to the $50, 900, =
900. instead Of being included in it.
This brings the total to $4,000, ,0Qo."
Hospital Needs Greater.
The letter also brought out that,
while 100000 would be available
out of the Lanham bill for 200 more
hospital beds to take care of the
10000 new homes, Washington has
residual need for s7,600, 900 addi-
tional for hospital facilities.
There also is residual need for
ia school rooms, aside from the
Lanham housing needs, which would
require another $1,30O,0O0 These
items would bring the total of the
bill up to SOS 900 900.
For recreation facilities in excess
OF the House bill there is a residual
need for $1.224,0 900, the group re-
ported, bringing the total to $67,-
$4,000.
The conferees then included a
contingent reserve for stores and
essential commercial facilities, If
private establishments do not To-
cate near the new houses, $2,276, 900,
masking $6e. 400. 900. .,.~4....f
sszI Ihe letter then deducted 4 cuu-'
tingent fund estimate of So SOC. 900
given at. the earlier hearings, bring
ing the total down to s65, 900, 900.
The letter added however, that;
there, would stM be a residual Med.
m the District and surrounding
areas for sewers, water mains, roads
and streets, aggregating S., 300 900
and not allowed for in the House
bill. This would bring the total to
81, 100000
Final Total S72,145.26S.
There is further need for $445,-
268 for streets, sewer and water
facilities for defense housing prof.
ects of the Alley Dwelling Authority,
nearing completion and for which
the District government reports it
has no funds.
This brought the final total to
$72,145.26S.
Senator Taft pointed out the COM
mittee was interested in the South
west reconstruction project, and
asked for further information on the
estimate presented today of s7,000,-
900 as the cost of rehabilitating the
nine blocks bounded by Delaware
avenue, Fourth street, F and I
streets. The Sneator pointed out
that Mr.. Goodwillie, who worked out
the plan. estimated $500, 900 would
reconstruct the houses in that area,
with some new construction, to pro-
vide for 900 families. He also fig
ures that for a little more than
81 1,000, 900 the 600 families now lv-
ing in that area could be rehoused
in low-cost projects, making the
total cost $4,500,000.
That figure, Senator Taft said,
would be about $4,000 per house for
the 900 families in the reconStruc-
ton area, and indicated that could
be justified. If it costs $1,000, 900,
he said, the unit cost would be
about $1,000, and he doubted If that
could be put through.
Rehousing Cost Included.
John H. Ihlder, executive officer
of the Alley Dwelling Authority,
said the $1,000 900 included rehous-
ing the 800 families now in the
area. Mr.. Ihlder estimated it would
cost $2,400,000 to rehouse those
families. Adding this to the cost of
reconstructing the area to accom-
modate 900 families made the total
81, 100000. He added that, If it
should be found necessary to re-
house 900 instead of 600 families,
the total cost would be 100000.