Distribution by number of rooms of dwelling units in sec. 608, Veterans' Emergency Housing projects covered by commitments issued January to June 1949, United States total and selected insuring offices 1 Insurance office jurisdiction covers more than just the city named. For example, the Washington office covers the Washington metropolitan area, New York and Houston about % of their respective States. The Philadelphia office_covers eastern Pennsylvania and all of Delaware. The Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco offices have jurisdiction over about half of their respective States while the Atlanta, Greensboro, Topeka, and Denver ofices embrace all of their respective States. 2 Totals do not always add to 100 percent because of rounding. Source: Federal Housing Administration. Distribution of monthly rentals of dwelling units in sec. 608 Veterans' Emergency Housing projects covered by commitments issued January to June 1949, United States total, and selected insuring offices $33.8 percent of monthly rentals are less than $45. 38.3 percent of monthly rentals are less than $45. Source: Federal Housing Administration. Distribution by number of rooms of dwelling units in sec. 608, Veterans' Emergency Housing projects covered by commitments issued January to June 1949, United States total and selected insuring offices 1 Insurance office jurisdiction covers more than just the city named. For example, the Washington office covers the Washington metropolitan area, New York and Houston about of their respective States. The Philadelphia office covers eastern Pennsylvania and all of Delaware. The Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco offices have jurisdiction over about half of their respective States while the Atlanta, Greensboro, Topeka, and Denver ofices embrace all of their respective States. 2 Totals do not always add to 100 percent because of rounding. Source: Federal Housing Administration. Distribution of monthly rentals of dwelling units in sec. 608 Veterans' Emergency Housing projects covered by commitments issued January to June 1949, United States total, and selected insuring offices $33.8 percent of monthly rentals are less than $45. 38.3 percent of monthly rentals are less than $45. Source: Federal Housing Administration. Mr. FOLEY. I would be glad to have questions at this time, or if the committee prefers to have Mr. Richards proceed with his statement at this time, he is prepared to do so, I believe. Mr. PATMAN. Mr. Foley, do you have any statistics on the number of homes in the United States, single homes, and not apartments, just the number of single homes? Mr. FOLEY. I am quite sure we do have, although I don't have the figures in mind. I will ask my statistical people if we have the material here. I will have them in a moment. Mr. PATMAN. And also the number of residential units regardless of size. Mr. FOLEY. We have that. Mr. PATMAN. Can you give that to me now? Mr. FOLEY. That will be in the figures which will be submitted for the record. Mr. PATMAN. You mentioned in your statement, which is a very fine statement, it is very comprehensive, in fact, it answered practically every question I had in mind—I don't know any questions to ask about the particular bills that you have not covered fully, but you mentioned in this statement that we have been on these programs now for the past 15 years, and I would just like to know how we are getting along. The Government has been furnishing many incentives to guarantee home loans and to make home building attractive, and I would just like to know what progress has been made by the people in that direction, how the number of home owners now compare with the number of home owners 15 years ago. Mr. FOLEY. You mean the number of home owners in the country as compared Mr. PATMAN. Yes. Mr. FOLEY. I don't have it in mind but my impression is that it has increased. Mr. PATMAN. It has increased? Mr. FOLEY. That is my impression, but I will be glad to furnish the figures. (The matter referred to above is as follows:) As the accompanying table indicates, the 15-year period 1935-49 saw an increasingly larger production of one-family structures, a type which, traditionally is nearly all owner-occupied. While final data for 1949 are not yet available, . preliminary data make it appear that approximately 780,000 of the nearly 984,000 nonfarm units started in 1949 will be one-family homes. These 15 years encompass part of the depression years of the mid-thirties, the war years with their restrictions on home building, and the postwar reconversion era in which, in 1949, a new all-time record production of homes was established. As the table shows, in the relatively normal prewar years of 1938-41 approximately 31 percent of all privately financed units were started with Federal Housing Administration commitments to insure. This percentage has been running slightly higher in the past 2 years, indicating that at a time when private home building is at record peaks FHA aid for privately financed homes is playing an even more important part than it did in the prewar years. In addition, in the postwar years there has been an important volume of units started under the Veterans' Administration home-loan guaranty program. Taken together, in the past 3 years, approximately 45 percent of all units started have been either Veterans' Administration or Federal Housing Administration aided. In April 1947, according to Bureau of the Census estimates, there were 41,625,000 dwelling places both farm and nonfarm in the United States ranging all the way from one-room mansions to one-room shacks. Reflecting a continuation of a trend away from the farms the 34,133,000 nonfarm dwellings in 1947 represented the highest proportion on nonfarm units in our history. |