HOUSING: Surplus & Shortage

All over the U.S. the housing situation was so tight that people were almost ready to move into abandoned chicken coops (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Last week the Federal Public Housing Authority offered them something a little better than that. FPHA is ready to sell the Government's 320,000 temporary, jerry-built housing units around shut-down war plants. They were not houses that would last a lifetime, said FPHA, but they would be good enough until the shortage eases.

First to go on the block will be the 300-unit clapboard project at Wichita, Kans.. As fast as other units become surplus, they too...

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