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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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National Urban League in New York warmly approves President Eisenhower's housing message to Congress, praising its focus on relocating slum clearance displacees and fair minority access, recommending 35,000 annual units and liberalized FHA for low-income families.
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NEW YORK, N. Y. - Warm approval was expressed recently by National Urban League officials in commenting on President Eisenhower's message to the Congress on housing. League officials declared this to be the first time in the long history of housing legislation that the President's message had contained strong and explicit reference to the need for relocating families in housed because of slum clearance and similar public action.
FAIR SHARE
This Presidential position is in line with National Urban League housing activities aimed at increasing private home-ownership among Negroes, assuring Negro and other minority groups a fair share of mortgage finance resources, and, moreover, assuring them of equal access to public housing facilities.
"The President's statement," declared Lester B. Granger, National Urban League Executive Director, "went a long way in clarifying some of the generalities of the report of his Advisory Committee on Government Housing Policies and Programs. Whereas that report failed to set an early public housing goal, the President recommended 35,000 units per year for a four-year period.
It is true that this number of units is pitifully small compared to the actual need in slum clearance relocation, but it is also true that the President's priority recommendations, if effectuated, will serve as a healthy example, while providing aid to a limited number who will not be served through other sources of housing."
LOW INCOME FAMILIES
Reginald Johnson, the League's Director of Housing Activities, also commented on the "liberalized" FHA Mortgage Plan for low income families. Admitting that this will be an aid to minority housing needs, Mr. Johnson recognized the ever-present danger of a spreading growth of shoddy, never-to-be-paid-for homes.
Fortunately, he pointed out, the President recommended that this new mortgage plan be "limited to those families who must seek other homes as result of slum rehabilitation, conservation and similar activities in the public interest."
According to Mr. Johnson, the Eisenhower statement recognized that the "minority" housing market is not limited to low income housing, and observed a need for diligent governmental attention to possible misuse of the slum clearance program. It was urged that more private mortgage finance be encouraged for "good, well-located sites" so that the slum clearance program will not develop into a "Negro clearance device."
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the president's message recommends 35,000 public housing units per year for four years, seen as small but a healthy example; liberalized fha mortgage plan for low-income families limited to those affected by slum rehabilitation, with warnings against misuse and encouragement for private mortgage finance on good sites to avoid 'negro clearance device'.
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National Urban League officials expressed warm approval of President Eisenhower's message to Congress on housing, noting it as the first to strongly reference relocating families displaced by slum clearance and public actions. This aligns with League activities for increasing Negro home-ownership, fair share of mortgage resources, and equal access to public housing. Granger praised the clarification over the Advisory Committee's report, recommending 35,000 units annually for four years. Johnson commented on the liberalized FHA plan aiding minority needs but risking shoddy homes, limited to displaced families, and urged attention to minority housing beyond low-income and preventing slum clearance misuse.