Evening star., 1946-09-15
20 Silver Spring
FPHA Units Will
Open This Week
Occupancy for Other
Veterans Housing
Seen in 10 Weeks

Occupancy of 20 of the 1877 units
in the veterans housing project in
Sligo Valley Park. Silver Spring,
is scheduled this week, E. Brooke
Lee, chairman of the Montgomery
Housing Authority, announced yes
terday.
Mr.. Lee said he has received as
surance of early occupancy from
the Federal Public Housing Author
ity, in charge of construction. Other
units are expected to open during
the next 10 weeks.
Veterans housing units at Linden
and at Washington Missionary Col
lege, Takoma Park. also are expected
to open this month"; Mr.. Lee said.
Building Four Months.
Although the Sligo Park project
has been under construction for
more than four months. Mr.. Lee
emphasized erection and completion
Of the units have "at no time been
delayed by any failure of the local
authority to perform its share of
the work.
He explained FPHA has furnished
the buildings, placed them on the
site and prepared them for oc-
cupancy. The housing agency also
is furnishing heating. cooking and
other equipment and is providing
rental furniture for 80 per cent of
the dwellings, he added.
The county commissioners fur
nished funds for water, sewer and
electrical facilities and provided
parking space for the units facing
Sligo parkway near Forest Glen
road, Mr.. Lee said.
To Build Road.
He said the county also will con-
struct road leading to units to
be erected on the recently acquired
Bulls tract east of the park as
part of the permanent park road
system.
A total of $50 veterans have ap-
piled for living quarters in the
Sligo Valley project. Their names
have been entered in a permanent
ledger and space will be offered
them in the order of their applica-
tions within the classifications es-
tablsihed by the Housing Authority
First priority. Mr.. Lee said, will
be given families of veterans who
entered the service while living in
the county, who have returned to
the county and whose present hous-
ing conditions are classified as dis
tressed" as defined by the Housing
Authority.
Two Priorities Set.
To meet this definition, veterans
families must meet one or more of
the following requirements: Be
without housing in the area; live
In quarters not designed for family
occupancy; threatened with eyic-
ton, If not already evicted; to have
lived doubled up" with another
family while a member was in the
service and desire to establish their
own home on that members re-
turn, or have a dwelling which is
unsatisfactory for their use because
Of some unusual hardship affecting
the family, such as a health con-
dition aggravated by such housing.
Second priority will be given fam
lilies OF veterans who entered the
service from other parts of the coun-
try but who have moved to Mont
gomery County and their present
living conditions qualify them for
occupancy under the distressed"
definition.
Mr.. Lee said the Housing Author
ity will consider the establishment of
a special distressed" priority for
the families Of veterans who have
been evicted from their living quar-
ters by court order.
More Units Planned.
OF the $50 veterans who have ap-
piled for housing in the project, ap-
proximately 800 entered the service
from the county, have returned there
and their present living conditions
fall under the distressed" classifi-
cation, according to Mr.. Lee.
Some Of these families, however.
are obtaining acceptable" homes
themselves.
He said the Housing Authority
hopes to place Is additional apart
ment units and so more trailer units