As an ex-Chicago realtor, Federal Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods can sympathize with landlords caught between frozen rents and swollen costs. Woods also knows that rent controls would be unnecessary if moderate-income families could get decent houses at decent prices.
Last week, beefy, blue-eyed Tighe (rhymes with buy) Woods invited newsmen to his air-conditioned Washington office and shyly announced that he had a surprise for them: he had built a house to sell for $6,750, including a ½-acre lot and a septic tank. Explained Woods: "I thought it was about time somebody...
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