Billions Of Dollars In Loans, Outright Gifts Involved In Government Housing Agenda
By JAMES MARLOW
WASHINGTON, July 6.
More than 25,000,000 low-Income
people live in slums or run
down city or farm homes. They
can't afford better.
Now the government will help
some of them through a public
Over $25,000,000
Raised In Drive
For Polio Fight
A record total of $25,728,000
was raised In the 1949 March of
Dimes to continue the fight on
polio, it was announced today by
A. G. Henninger, chairman of the
Douglas County Chapter of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis. The comparable figure
for last year was $21,600,000.
Mr. Henninger disclosed results
of the 1949 March of Dimes ap
peal following receipt of a letter
from Basil O'Connor, president of
' the National Foundation, who
expressed his thanks to the
American people and the thou
sands of volunteers throughout
the country who made the drive
the most outstanding in the or
ganization's history.
Half the sum raised after ex
penses will be used by national
headquarters to support its re
search, professional education
and training programs, and to
supplement resources of its local
chapter Jn epidemic emergencies.
Chapters retain the other half to
pay for care and treatment of
polio patients and epidemic aid.
O'Connor's letter declared that
despite the record breaking drive
"the need for funds to fight polio
still remains extremely critical"
because of the unusually severe
epidemic experienced in recent
years.
"Last year's epidemic, the
worst in 32 years, exhausted re
serves of the National Founda
tion," O'Connor disclosed. "In the
five-year period ended in 1948,
the 96,974 cases of infantile pa
ralysis recorded in the nation
were more than double the 42,738
cases reported in the preceding
five-year period. At the same
time, per patient costs of hospital
ization and medical care also
have more than doubled in the
last decade.
"The doubled case-load, multi
plied by doubled hospitalization
costs, has meant a burden in
medical care alone for the Na
tional Foundation that has in
creased more than fourfold in re
cent years.
"At the same time, research to
find a cure or preventive for the
disease has been stepped up to
the limit of our resources. Now
that many hopeful signs are be
ginning to appear on the research
horizon, we cannot relax our ef
fort in this direction."
I housing program.
Although it lsn t big enougn to
help all of them, many millions
of people will benefit since it will
spread over a period of years.
It has three aims:
1. To get rid of slums. No one
expects all the slums to be wiped
out by this program. But it
should make a dent in them.
2. Build houses the so-called
public housing where low-income
families, who have to pay
low rent, can get recent dwellings.
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3. Help poor farmers put need
ed repairs on their homes or even
build new ones.
That, in brief, Is the program.
The big help from the govern
ment will be in money. The cost
to the government:
1. Between $7 billion and $12
billion spread over 40 years in
grants. These will be outright
gifts of monev.
2. Another $3 billion or so In
loans. Since these will be paid
back, the government won't be
out this money.
Aid By Way Of Cities
Except in the case of hard-up
farmers, none of the money goes
directly to individuals, poor or
otherwise.
It goes to cities and communi
ties. They'll have to hire private
contractors to clear the slums
and build the public housing for
them.
When they can't foot the bill
themselves, they'll get money
help from the government.
They'll handle the slum clear
ance and run the public housing
when It's built. The government's
chief role is to see that the plans
make sense before it dishes out
any money.
The public housing goal Is 810,
000 family units In the next six
years. A unit can be a place with
one bedroom, or two or three bed
rooms, plus the other usual
rooms.
Since there are millions of peo
ple in the slums, the 810,000 units
can't take care of all of them in
six years.
The government won't let any
city use federal money to wipe
out a slum unless there's a low
rent place for the slum-dwellers
to go.
For that reason, the public
housing part of the program
probably will be the first to start.
Slum-celtrance can follow.
Only For Low Incomes
This program clearly means
the government acknowledges It
has a responsibility to see that
American people are decently
housed.
Congress has approved the pro-
Wed., July 6, 1949 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3
gram and President Truman
shortly will sign it into law. Then
it can start.
Families allowed in the new
public housing must have in
comes too low to afford ade
quate new or old housing. And
The rents charged in the pub
lic housing must be at least 20
per cent less than the lowest pri
vate rents in decent dwellings In
the area.
The a vera ere rent probably will
be around $23, plus $7 for utili
ties. Some families will pay more,
some less.
This is not all new and sudden.
Congress has been Investigating
the problem Intensively for the
past four years.
And In 1937 Congress passed a
housing act. Under It 193,000
dwellings have been provided in
268 localities in 37 states.
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