Report Outline
Administration Homes-For-Veterans Program
Recent Advances in Housing Construction
Obstacles to Change in Housing Construction
Special Focus
NEW MATERIALS and new methods of construction have an important place in the emergency housing program of the Truman administration. Direct government encouragement to technological advances in housing is counted upon both to reduce high costs of home building and to speed the provision of new dwellings for war veterans.
Formidable barriers must be overcome if this part of the Truman-Wyatt program is to yield maximum benefits. Some of these are the resistance to housing innovations of both labor and management in the construction industry, the outmoded building codes which obstruct the use of new methods and materials in many localities, the conservatism of lending institutions, and the sales resistance of prospective home buyers to unconventional house designs.
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Administration Homes-For-Veterans Program
The administration program calls for the construction of 2,700,000 new dwelling units by the end of 1947. Of these, 1,600,000 would be of conventional design, 850,000 would be prefabricated houses, and 250,000 would be temporary structures. To achieve these goals, Housing Expediter Wyatt proposes that operative builders and suppliers of materials be assisted by priorities, subsidies, tax concessions, and recruitment of labor. Propective home buyers would be protected by price ceilings; prospective home builders would receive government assistance in obtaining land and long-term building loans at low interest rates. |
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Dec. 23, 2022 |
Homelessness Crisis |
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Apr. 02, 2021 |
Evictions and COVID-19 |
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Mar. 02, 2018 |
Affordable Housing Shortage |
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Nov. 06, 2015 |
Housing Discrimination |
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Feb. 20, 2015 |
Gentrification |
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Apr. 05, 2013 |
Homeless Students |
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Dec. 14, 2012 |
Future of Homeownership |
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Dec. 18, 2009 |
Housing the Homeless |
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Nov. 02, 2007 |
Mortgage Crisis  |
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Feb. 09, 2001 |
Affordable Housing |
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Jan. 06, 1989 |
Affordable Housing: Is There Enough? |
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Oct. 30, 1981 |
Creative Home Financing |
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Nov. 07, 1980 |
Housing the Poor |
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Dec. 21, 1979 |
Rental Housing Shortage |
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Nov. 24, 1978 |
Housing Restoration and Displacement |
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Apr. 22, 1977 |
Housing Outlook |
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Sep. 26, 1973 |
Housing Credit Crunch |
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Aug. 06, 1969 |
Communal Living |
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Jul. 09, 1969 |
Private Housing Squeeze |
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Mar. 04, 1966 |
Housing for the Poor |
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Apr. 10, 1963 |
Changing Housing Climate |
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Sep. 26, 1956 |
Prefabricated Housing |
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Sep. 02, 1949 |
Cooperative Housing |
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May 14, 1947 |
Liquidation of Rent Controls |
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Dec. 17, 1946 |
National Housing Emergency, 1946-1947 |
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Mar. 05, 1946 |
New Types of Housing |
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Oct. 08, 1941 |
Rent Control |
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Aug. 02, 1938 |
The Future of Home Ownership |
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Sep. 05, 1934 |
Building Costs and Home Renovation |
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Nov. 20, 1933 |
Federal Home Loans and Housing |
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Nov. 17, 1931 |
Housing and Home Ownership |
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