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Discuss amendments to housing act. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Federal Housing Administrator Stewart McDonald (right) discusses with Senator Robert F. Wagner, author of Wagner Housing Act, the recommendations of President Roosevelt for amendments to the act which would provide for a 10 cent down payment as adequate on purchase of home. Appearing before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee later McDonald urged that the Senate enact the proposed amendments so as to make possible large-scale low-cost housing construction. 12/1/37
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Low rent housing may be expanded. Washington, D.C., April 11. A White House conference with officials of Government Housing today brought a suggestion that the Low Rent, Housing and Slum Clearance Program may be expanded, the conferences discussed what they characterized as the "General Program" presumed to refer to proposals for new PWA expenditures, left to right: Nathan Straus, Chief of U.S. Housing Authority, Ebert K. Burlew, Asst. Sec. of the Interior, Sec. of the Interior Harold Ickes, and Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing Administrator, 41138
Housing Administrator asks for funds to continue building low-rent homes. Washington, D.C., April 7. U.S.H.A. Administrator Nathan Straus appeared before a Senate Education and Labor Sub-committee today to urge and additional authorization of $845,000,000 to continue his agency's program of low-rent dwellings. He said that, in addition to providing homes of good quality, work would be provided, directly and indirectly(?), for 355,000 persons. 4-7-39 Sen. Allen Ellender, La., Nathan Straus, Sen. Robert Taft, Ohio
Straus holds off housing requests. Washington, D.C., Nov. 3. Nathan Straus of New York, who took over the United States Housing Authority today, served notice on states and municipalities that the new agency cannot receive applications for new projects under the new $550,000,000 housing and slum clearance program for at least two months, Mr. Straus outlined the major objectives of the new Housing Administration at his first press conference. 11/3/37
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Discuss low-cost housing problems. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. John H. Fahey, Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, discuss the many problems confronting them in putting into operation the $500,000,000 Wagner Housing Act. Housing experts from all parts of the country met with Ickes and Fahey today to promulgate a program of low-rent housing construction and slum clearance under the newly created United States Housing Authority. 9/20/37
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