Evening star., 1943-11-13
H3,317Hou Unit!
Completed by MIA
In 9-Month Period

During the first nine months of
this year 423,317 war housing units
were made available for occupancy
John B. Blandford, jr., administra-
tor OF the National Housing Agency,
reported today. OF these, 52,48O
units were completed in September
period Of the latest tabulations.
This compares with 203,68O units
completed during the nine month
period of 1912.
Construction was started on 31,-
1876 units during September. This
brought the nine months total of
units placed under construction to
49,033, as compared with 390,574 in
the comparable period of 1912. On
September 80 total of 227,984 units
were under construction.
War housing is scheduled by the
National Housing Agency to provide
accommodations for workers needed
by war industries to meet produc-
ton schedules and who are not
already housed within reasonable
committing distance of the plants,
Mr.. Blandford said. AS many in
coming workers as possible are
housed in existing dwellings. When
new construction is necessary, pri-
vate financing is specified wherever
there is reasonable likelihood of a
postwar demand for the housing
and wherever private builders can
meet necessary wartime require
mentS, he said,
Program Expands.
Under the privately financed
phase OF the program, lis ,636 new
family dwellings were completed and
120,858 were started during the first
nine months of l943, compared with
completions of 1l5,025 and starts of
152,241 units under local MIA quotas
for private war housing in the first
nine months of 1912.
In September, 1896 family dwell
ngs were completed by private
builders and 1927 were started
There were 83,56l privately financed
family dwellings under construction
on September 30. About IS per cent
OF all privately financed war hous-
Ing now being built is covered by
war housing mortgage insurance
written by the Federal Housing Ad-
mlnlstration, one of the operating
units of the MIA.
Under the publicly financed phase
OF the program, now involving teifi-
porary construction almost exclu-
sively 0l,701 new units were COM
pleted and 206,555 were placed under
construction during the first nine
months of l943. This compared with
competitions of 1855 units and
starts of 238.333 in the like period
of 1912 In September, 34,594 units
were completed and l0,417 were
started. |,
Many Structures Converted.
The publicly financed war hous-
Ing completed since January |, in
cluded 208,558 family dwellings, u.s.
oo7 accommodations for single per-
sons in dormitories, and 1905
trallers as stop-gap accommoda-
tlons. On September 80 there were
l28,783 units under construction, in
cluding, $4,000 family units, 28,884
dormitory units and 6,999 stop-gap
units. About 80 per cent of all pub
llcly financed war housing is under
the jurisdiction of the Federal Pub
hc Housing Authority, another unit
of the MIA.
In addition to the new war hous-
ing being financed by public funds,
conversions of existing structures.
which will produce 21,26O family
units, were started during the first
nine months Of the year by the
Home Owners Loan Corp, acting
for the MAS Homes Use Service.
BY September 80 total of $3.50 of
these units had been completed.
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