Investigation of the Program of the National Capital Housing Authority: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. Res. 184, a Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Program of the National Capital Housing Authority ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944 - Housing |
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actual Alley Dwelling Authority amortization amount annual apartments appropriation Association bonds BREUNINGER building built Capital Housing Authority Chairman committee Congress construction cost DANIEL DECKMAN Defense Homes Corporation depreciation District of Columbia dwelling units economic rent enator estimate fact families Federal figure financing Fort Dupont funds Government HASKELL Home Builders HUFF IHLDER income interest KILINSKI land Lanham Act LEPLEY living loan McDONALD ment MONTGOMERY National Capital Housing nator BURTON Negro NICKEL operating paid Parkside percent PORETSKY private builders private enterprise private housing problem public housing question record redevelopment relief rental repairs Senator BURTON Senator CAPPER Senator TYDINGS slum areas slum clearance statement subsidy substandard taxes taxpayers tenants testimony thing tion United States Housing WARREN Washington WILKES WIRE
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Page 972 - The committee shall have the power, without regard to the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended...
Page 971 - Before the adoption of the plan or any such part, amendment, extension, or addition the commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which shall be given by one publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality and in the official gazette, if any, of the municipality.
Page 208 - Labor to be prevailing for the corresponding classes of laborers and mechanics employed on projects of a character similar to the contract work in the city, town, village, or other civil subdivision of the State in which the work is to be performed...
Page 961 - ... necessary conveyancing to be paid from said appropriations. The funds so appropriated shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the general funds of the Treasury in the same proportion as other expenses of the District of Columbia.
Page 971 - cannot be accomplished unless it be done in the light of comprehensive and coordinated planning of the whole of the territory of the District of Columbia and its environs"; and that "the acquisition and the assembly of real property and the leasing or sale thereof for redevelopment pursuant to a. project area redevelopment plan * * * is hereby declared to be a public use.
Page 972 - That each member of the board shall receive a salary of $7,500 per annum. The board shall appoint a secretary, at a salary of $5,000 per annum, and employ and fix the compensation of such attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees as it may find necessary for the proper performance of Its duties and as may be appropriated for by the Congress.
Page 967 - redevelopment" means replanning, clearance, redesign, and rebuilding of blighted (including slum) areas, but does not exclude the continuance of some of the existing buildings or uses whose demolition and rebuilding or change of use are not deemed an essential feature of the redevelopment of the area, nor does it exclude the inclusion of parcels of bare land in project areas. For the purposes of this Act "redevelopment...
Page 967 - ... (4) may adopt, amend, and repeal bylaws, rules, and regulations governing the manner in which its business may be conducted and the powers vested in it may be exercised...
Page 971 - The District Commissioners may refer back to the Planning Commission any project area redevelopment plan, project area boundaries, or modification submitted to it, together with...
Page 967 - To adopt, prescribe, amend, repeal, and enforce bylaws, rules and regulations for the exercise of its powers under this Act or governing the manner in which its business may be conducted and the powers granted to it by this Act may be exercised and enjoyed...