Evening star., 1950-03-18

housing AQIIlllllSGI dIlOll.
The data indicates that not onl
elevator-type apartments insult
able for families with children
as was reported in The Star tw'
weeks ago-but that even the gar
den developments in the suburban
areas have a high percentage O.
relatively small apartments.
Today's figures show, for ex'
ample, that less than 4 per cen
of 22,970 garden apartments or
which FILA was willing today tt
release information have as man,
as three bedrooms.
Of the remainder. about so Pc
cent have two bedrooms and abou
So per cent have one bedroom
The number of efficiency apart.
nents in garden projects is small
however, in contrast to the well.
over -50-per-cent of efflciencie'
in elevator projects.
22,970 Units Covered.
Two weeks ago In this section
The Star printed a list of 27 post.
war FILA elevator apartments ap.
proved up to that time for con
struction in the District area. Th'
list showed the size of the apart
ments, and the rental range o.
the units according to size. classi.
f1cations.
In attempting to obtain the
same kind of information about
garden apartments for use this
week, The Star first was told the
information would not be made
available.
After further effort was made
, FILA agreed to provide somewhat
similar information on apartments
for which rents had been "ap-
proved finally"
This information covered 22,97O
garden apartments. The agency
said it would not give information
on an additional 10.978 garden
apartments. It's reason for with
holding information on these
apartments, FILA said, was that
final rents" had not been ap-
proved.
Final Rents Often Higher.
Final rents" in some cases in
clude cost of utilities and in some
cases do not. Often such final
rents are higher than the rents
which FHA estimates should be
charged at the time it commits it.
self to insure the mortgage on a
project. Raises are granted for a
number of reasons, including cost
increases or increased services.
In releasing information today
on apartments for which final rents
have been approved, FILA dis
closed, incidentally, that it has
agreed to approve higher rent
maximums on four elevator apart
ments than it had approved up to
the time it supplied elevator
apartment data to The Star a
little over two weeks ago.
For the Washington Circle
apartments, for example, FHA' S
rent scale two weeks ago provided
for monthly rent of $50 for ia
efficiency apartments. Today
list shows one efficiency has been
raised to $8650 and 113 efficien-
cies to $90.50.
For the apartments at 1901
Wisconsin avenue NV, FHA's
rent schedule two weeks ago pro-
vided for a $75 rent for eight
ef1ciencies, and a 500 rent for
79 one-bedroom apartments, while
today's new list shows the eight
eficiencies have been raised tc
500 and the one bedroom apart.
ments to $105.
Hilltop House Schedule.
For Hilltop House, FHA's rents
two weeks ago were $85 for &C
ef1ciencies, $100 for 81 one-bed-
room apartments and $3.50 fol-
two-bedroom apartments while
today's new list shows the eff
ciencies have been raised to 500
the one-bedroom apartments tc
$116.50 and the two two-bedroom
apartments to $170.
At Vito Courts, F1A's rents
two weeks ago were $50 for eff
ciencies and S85 for one-bedroom
apartments, while today's new list
shows eff1ciencies range from