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Show f ' n ' w - 1, '..jr- H. X- 1 I1 Xt 1 t x X , X ' -s X' : j ' ft X r O With housing costs remaining so high as to keep home ownership out of reach of many people, the build-your-own-home idea has begun to sweep across Canada. Most of the home-builders have had little or no experience, experi-ence, but they pitch right in and with the aid of specially prepared plans and loans manage to do the job in adequate fashion. fash-ion. This Ontario family (photo at left) has joined the scores of Canadian veterans who are in the build -.your - own - house program. They are planning plan-ning on a house with a room for baby Nancy. w Q The veterans often obtain better quality material ma-terial for less money through careful shopping. The Veterans Loan association asso-ciation in Canada finances fi-nances the program. Shown at right, a V.L.A. supervisor, standing at left, is helping a veteran contractor to select his woods which are to be used in the house he is building. na-iiKM.j-.iiii.nl umirninnni " . Ifc...,.'... f., wm, , I i 1? V ' ' , i .-Vs ' ' ' ; h '1 K i : . i y: ,: i i ' , J . .''if, i i-s ' A "77, ! t. r f - , ' 111 ' -rrihi.iM-wMf--iff--iW-tfir 1 ""lf"'11 liniftrt-ililiuli j I . - v; - If,' 4 i fy': 1 v, i i 1 ' " - - ---vr " O This evening class of 1950 vet builders (above) being instructed by V.L. A. supervisor Robert Woode is one of 12 organized or-ganized in the western Ontario centers. The veterans vet-erans are given encouragement encour-agement in the form of a loan and they need to give proof only of their business ability, their will to work and -spare time. The photo at left shows the Simpson family of Roseland, Ontario, working work-ing on their home. Simpson Simp-son put the foundation in himself, learned how to lay cinder blocks and built the walls with his wife acting as hod man. 0 Tl)is is the house ("9h that knack built. Ken Reid, a draughtsman, Juif a home for $7,000 M V.L.A. aid and an ,r $1,000, in addition 'adown payment of 10 per cent of the cost and ss over $6,000. The 7ean rePQys two-thirds .the loan amortized at f with interest at 11 Per cent. The re-mai"ler re-mai"ler is a grant given . ""'tbnally on his ful-''ng ful-''ng terms of the con-tracl con-tracl for 10 years. j --:: X x A !: 1.' " "Xi L tZy.' i " X ;X j J -! fl - i.; -I |