Word: usha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Housing Agency) in corporates 16 old agencies that dealt with housing, such as FHA, USHA...
There was the Fore River case. This spring, he said, Palmer notified him that 1,050 housing units were needed immediately in the Boston area for workers in Bethlehem's Quincy shipyards. With no time to build, FWA had to purchase from USHA for $4,856,203 an 873-unit slum clearance project 8.7 miles from the shipyards. Carmody told Palmer at the time it was a "preposterous" idea. Result up to Aug. 26: 400 units were occupied, only 225 by shipyard workers...
...Division of Defense Housing Coordination to supersede all ordinary Federal domestic housing agencies (Army & Navy divisions, FHA, USHA, credit agencies), with enormous powers to force and speed construction wherever rearmament or military programs create housing emergencies. Chief: balding Charles Forrest Palmer, 48, of Atlanta, Ga., housing expert of NDAC; salary, $9,000 a year...
...this should have presented no grave problem. The New Deal had two great agencies (USHA. FHA) whose business was mass housing. RFC, WPA could also be enlisted to finance and build emergency houses. Ensconced in the National Defense Advisory Commission was keen-eyed, balding Atlanta Builder Charles F. ("Chuck") Palmer, to coordinate all defense housing. His consultant was young (36), aggressive Washington Builder Gustave Ring, who had made a tidy fortune on apartment buildings which U. S. housing agencies partly financed.* Last week Mr. Palmer figured that the U. S. defense industries needed 42,000 new housing units, the Navy...
...farm residences are at an absolute rock-bottom 1%, at least 500,000 dwellings will be built in 1940, residential construction will up 11% from $1,900,000,000 to $2,109,000,000. In addition there will be $500,000,000 building of homes under the USHA program...