Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-01-27 | Page 2 | Housing Plans Success Seen

HOUSING PLANS SUCCESS SEEN Ickes Finds Prospects Are Better Beter for Early Action WASHINGTON Jan 27 tf Q A brighter prospect than ever before for lor slum clearance and low cost bous hous housing ing throughout the nation naton cos was pictured pic plc today by Secretary Ickes Icke p p.-esi p. sl si dent of the Federal Emergency Hous lag fog ig corporation In I an address addre before the tb national conference on public housing hawing the secretary said hope for a definite beginning beginning be be- be ginning In I the governments government's efforts was now running high Citing slum conditions in large du cities the secretary said the situation was WM not confined contie alone alono to these cen aone There Tere are country slums as a aswell well lel wellis is as a city cHy slums slum he ho said said People are living Iving in such and ond squalid conditions condition in many parts of the countryside coun that the dweller In a a dis ois disgraceful aLo graceful city tenement would feel fee fel that hat his hi own ow surroundings surroundIng are attractive attractive at at- son son- and fortunate by compari The secretary touch touched indirectly on the recent tying u up of the Federal Housing Howll corpora corpora- lions Ions tons ton's fund by Comptroller r General Generl J J. J R. R McCarL McCaL This Thi was wa done by bythe bythe the he comptroller on the ground the corporation formed to handle the housing program of ot t th federal government gov was The organizations organization's work was Wa brought to toa toa toa a standstill When the federal government undertakes un u. u to do a thing it do dots does not usually permit Itself to be beheld held back he said And what is i gen generally rall true of the federal government Is i particularly particularly par par- true tre of ot this thi administration Commenting further on the fund the te secretary reminded its his hi listeners litener that a complete job or even a 10 per cent job could not nol be covered such small by a smal sum su