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Show Federal Housing Agency Asks for 190 Millions To Build 56,000 Homes WNU Staff Correspondent. By WALTER A. SHE AD Action of Federal Housing administration admin-istration officials asking the congress con-gress for an additional appropriation of 190 million dollars for public and private housing and reopening of the Taft committee hearings investigating in-vestigating housing problems has bought speculation as to the future fu-ture of the federal housing program. Under the appropriation asked by FHA, $90,000,000 is sought for 36,000 units of public war housing and $100,000,000 is being asked to construct 2,000 privately financed units under title VI of the FHA. During the war emergency most of the separate housing organizations organiza-tions have been operating under the general framework of the National Housing agency. It seems to be the consensus of opinion among organizations organi-zations such as the National Association Associ-ation of Real Estate boards, the Producers' council, the United States Savings and Loan league, the National Association of Home Builders, and others, that the National Na-tional Housing agency should not be projected into the postwar era. Most of these organizations believe, be-lieve, according to private sources here, that the Federal Housing administration ad-ministration and the Federal Home Loan Bank board should be independent inde-pendent or be reestablished as relatively rela-tively independent agencies. Treasury May Take Over. Instead of liquidation of war housing hous-ing projects by the National Housing Hous-ing agency, the general opinion seems to prefer that the disposal of permanent and temporary war housing should be the function of the treasury department. The treasury treas-ury also is regarded as the likely liquidator of the assets of such agencies agen-cies as the U. S. Housing corporation, corpora-tion, the Home Owners Loan corporation, cor-poration, the Defense Homes corporation cor-poration and all assets of agencies owning defense and war public housing, including the defense housing hous-ing of the Federal Works agency and the non-farm public housing of the Farm Security administration. It is presumed that the United States Housing authority will be returned re-turned to its prewar status in the Federal Works agency. There seems to be a wide diversity of opinion, however, as to the activities which should be permitted the USHA. Some realtors and home builders believe it should be liquidated liqui-dated as rapidly as contracts between be-tween the USHA and local public housing authorities will permit. |
