78456 Y4.063': A152 SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 4819, H. R. 4847, H. R. 4850 BILLS ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALLEY MAY 23, 25, 26; JUNE 1, 2, 6, 8, 13; AUGUST 29; Printed for the use of the Committee on the District of Columbia UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1945 ELIMINATION OF ALLEY DWELLINGS TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1944 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Washington, D. C. The Subcommittee on the Judiciary of the Committee on the District of Columbia met in the committee room, 345 Old House Office Building, at 10 a. m., Hon Dan R. McGehee (subcommittee chairman) presiding. Other members present were: Chairman Jennings Randolph, Hon. Sam M. Russell, Hon F. Edward Hébert, Hon. Edward G. Rohrbough, all of the committee. Hon. John Russell Young, president, and Col. Charles W. Kutz, Corps of Engineers, United States America, Engineer Commissioner of the Board of Commissioners if the District of Columbia; Richmond B. Keech, Esq., corporation counsel. John. Ihlder, Executive Officer, National Capital Housing Authority; Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant 3d, Chairman, National Capital Park and Planning Commission; and Thomas S. Settle, secretary. Mr. Joseph H. Deckman and Ernest F. Henry, Esq., Federation of Citizens' Associations; Rufus S. Lusk, Washington Taxpayers' Association; David B. Karrick, Esq., Building Owners' and Managers' Association; Edward R. Carr, Washington Real Estate Board; James C. Wilkes, Home Builders' Association of Metropolitan Washington; Preston E. Wire; Mrs. Helen Dewey Hoffman and Miss Mary L. Rehr, Washington Housing Association; Miss Harlan James, American Planning and Civic Association; and others. Mr. McGEHEE. The committee will come to order and we will start a hearing on H. R. 4819. However, in addition thereto we will consider two other like bills, H. R. 4847 and H. R. 4850. All these bills relate to the subject matter of housing here in the District of Columbia. Without objection, copies of the bills will be inserted in the record at this point. (H. R. 4819, H. R. 4847, and H. R. 4850 m [H. R. 4819, 78th Cong., 2d sess.] follows:) A BILL To provide for the elimination of alley dwellings and the clearance and redevelopment of slum and other blighted areas of the District of Columbia and the assembly, by purchase or condemnation, of real property in such areas and the sale or lease thereof for redevelopment; and to provide for the organization of, and procedure for such acquisition, elimination, clearance, redevelopment, and sale or lease, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. PURPOSES SECTION 1. It is hereby found and declared that large portions of the District of Columbia have become, or are becoming, blighted, owing to various ob1 |