Show building survey reveals american idea of home when you suggest owning a new home to the average american he 0 or r she thinks in terms of a house costing less than and contemplates between 10 and 15 years to pay off the debt these are some of the things that the committee on trends of the united states savings and loan league has learned from a questionnaire on public attitudes surveys were made of the attitudes of people selected at random including 5 per cent factory workers 7 per cent proprietors of businesses 20 per cent housewives 16 per cent professional workers and 12 per cent salesmen and miscellaneously employed others results of the last six years emphasis by government agencies on the monthly repayment home mortgage which is a century old heritage from the savings and loan institutions show prominently in the survey nine out of every 10 persons would prefer an amortized mortgage in financing their homes the league committee points out that before the depression only those who were borrowing money from the thrift and home financing institutions about one third of all the mortgagors were making ste steady a dy payments payment to reduce their debt on the home |