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Housing Expediter Wilson Watkins Wyatt heard the rafters creaking; the roof might cave in on him any day now. The man from Kentucky had tried and was still trying to be optimistic about his sagging emergency housing program. He still insisted that the U.S. could build 1,200,000 new veterans' homes in 1946. But the program's sorry shape was plain...
Count Him Out? Even the hopeful Mr. Wyatt was distressed. Last week he did what he could to get the jerry out of the building program. With new powers wangled from the Civilian Production Administration, he took over control of all priorities on building materials declared surplus by the Government. The Veterans Administration and the Federal Public Housing Authority would get first preference on these materials, with private builders of veterans' housing next...
...Wyatt then added 50 more items to the 30-odd already on the housing priorities list. Sample additions: stoves, refrigerators, linoleum, sheet steel, putty. He persuaded the Department of Commerce to extend its control over exports of building materials. He let it be known that new limitations might be placed on nonresidential construction...
...Expediter Wyatt had done little that seemed likely to relieve their supply worries, said the builders, he had done nothing at all to relieve their worries over rising costs. To protect themselves against contract squeezes (as well as to make more profit), builders almost unanimously clamored for a lifting of the $10,000 lid on veterans' housing. (Some had even gone on what amounted to a sit-down strike for a free market; new-building "starts" began to fall off in June...
Many a builder also clamored for a new federal housing boss. Snorted one last week: "The problem has licked Mr. Wyatt's meager abilities, but no one seems willing to count...