General Housing Act of 1945, Hearings Before ..., 79:1- on S. 1592 .... |
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acceptable housing adequate American amortization average believe BODFISH builders building built Census CHAIRMAN committee Congress construction cost decent housing DOUGLAS economic ELLENDER employment families farm Federal Housing Administration financing foreclosure funds HOLC Home Loan Bank home owner home ownership Housing Act Housing Authority housing bill housing needs housing problem housing program housing projects improve income groups industry interest rate labor land Lanham Act legislation living low-rent housing materials ment MERRION middle-income mortgage mortgage insurance National Housing Agency National Urban League Negroes operation payments percent period present President private enterprise proposed public housing racial reduce rent rental restrictive covenants rural savings and loan Secretary Senator CHAVEZ Senator HICKENLOOPER Senator MITCHELL Senator MURDOCK Senator RADCLIFFE Senator TAFT shortage slum standards statement tion urban redevelopment veterans village warranty workers
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Page 1114 - To bring into closer relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the training of the child, and to develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for every child the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.
Page 994 - If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this : that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.
Page 746 - The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and security of the Nation and the health and living standards of its people require housing production and related community development sufficient to remedy the serious housing shortage, the elimination of substandard and other inadequate housing...
Page 1004 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it.
Page 765 - All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property.
Page 560 - Authority that a gap of at least 20 per centum (except in the case of a displaced family or an elderly family) has been left between the upper rental limits for admission to the proposed low-rent housing and the lowest rents at which private enterprise unaided by public subsidy is providing (through new construction and available existing structures) a substantial supply of decent, safe, and sanitary housing toward meeting the need of an adequate volume thereof...
Page 746 - Nation and the health and living standards of its people require the realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family...
Page 853 - UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 : 30 am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 301 Senate Office Building, Senator Kobert D.
Page 1004 - Courts of justice are established, not only to decide upon the controverted rights of the citizens as against each other, but also upon rights in controversy between them and the government, and the docket of this court is crowded with controversies of the latter class.
Page 815 - ... giving due consideration to the income and earning capacity of the applicant and his family from the farm and other sources, and the maintenance of a reasonable standard of living for the owner and the occupants of said farm...