1 Does not include units served by utility projects for trailers. NOTE. The detailed break-down of capital costs of typical war housing accommodations in the Detroit area are shown in a table appearing in the hearings relating to the Federal Public Housing Authority. DETROIT HERMAN GARDEN PROJECT Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Could we have a similar statement in reference to the Detroit Herman Garden Project also? Mr. BLANDFORD. Yes. (The information requested appears in the table on war housing for the Detroit area on page 967.) TRANSFER OF OTHER FUNDS INTO OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATOR (See pp. 953, 956, 969) Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. In this appropriation language you say: In addition to the amounts otherwise available (which amounts shall be transferred to this authorization for expenditure hereunder). Does that mean Lanham Act funds? Mr. BLANDFORD. Yes. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Have you an estimate of how much of those funds will be available for the fiscal year 1944? You might put a statement in the record covering that. Mr. BLANDFORD. The total for the Administrator's Office is around $2,000,000. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. For 1944? Mr. BLANDFORD. For 1944. ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURES FOR PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS, ETC., OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATOR Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I think the committee would be interested, if you could make up an estimate showing the amount you think will be required, for publication, books, periodicals, newspapers, and so forth, and for the preparation and installation of exhibits; for the temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract or otherwise without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Mr. BLANDFORD. We will supply that Estimated requirements Books, periodicals, and newspapers Preparation and installation of exhibits_-_ Temporary employment of persons or organizations by contract---. Total $1,500 1,000 5,000 7,500 Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I think you were asked with respect to the sun you think you will need for attendance at meetings. Mr. BLANDFORD. Yes; we shall put a limitation on that. TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM CONSTITUENT AGENCIES (See pp. 953, 956) Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I see you have a provision here under which you are given pretty wide-open authority for the exchange of funds between your office and the constituent agencies. Mr. BLANDFORD. Was that not with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget? Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Yes. Mr. BLANDFORD. And only where there is consolidation which effect economies. Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. There is no requirement with respect to economies here. Mr. BLANDFORD. I can tell you why that came about, Mr. Wigglesworth. We felt, and the Bureau of the Budget agreed, that it might be desirable to consolidate in some cases even though there was no economy. Consolidation might lead to simplification of information to the public and to the Congress if we achieved a uniform policy, and if we operated some services through a central office instead of two or three. But ordinarily the consolidations we will have in mind will be those which effect economies. EXECUTIVE ORDER CONSOLIDATING WAR-HOUSING AGENCIES Mr. DIRKSEN. I think it might be advisable at this point in the record if you will insert a copy of Executive Order 9070, dated February 24, 1942, under which the consolidation was made. I think it would be interesting to the members. Mr. BLANDFORD. Yes; we will be glad to do that. (The Executive order referred to follows:) EXECUTIVE ORDER CONSOLIDATING THE HOUSING AGENCIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT INTO THE NATIONAL HOUSING AGENCY By virtue of the authority vested in me by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18, 1941 (Public Law 354, 77th Congress), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: 1. The following agencies, functions, duties, and powers are consolidated into a National Housing Agency and shall be administered as hereinafter provided under the direction and supervision of a National Housing Administrator: (a) The Federal Housing Administration and its functions, powers, and duties, including those of the Administrator thereof. (b) All functions, powers, and duties of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and of its members. (c) The Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the functions, powers, and duties of its Board of Directors. (d) The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation and the functions, powers, and duties of its Board of Trustees. (e) The United States Housing Authority and its functions, powers, and duties, including those of the Administrator thereof. (f) All functions, powers, and duties relating to defense housing of (1) the Federal Works Administrator under the act of October 14, 1940, entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes," as amended, and under acts making appropriations to carry out the purposes of said act, (2) the War Department and the Navy Department with respect to housing units for persons (with families) engaged in national defense activities (except housing units located on military or naval reservations, posts, or bases) under Title IV of the Naval Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1941, and (3) any agencies heretofore designated (including the Federal Works Agency and the Farm Security Administration) to provide temporary shelter in defense areas under the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, and the Additional Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, and the Additional Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941, and the Third Supplemental National Defense Appropriation Act, 1942. (g) All functions, powers, and duties of the Farm Security Administration relating to such housing projects as such Administration determines are for families not deriving their principal income from operating or working upon a farm. (h) The Defense Homes Corporation and its functions, powers, and duties, including those of its officers and Board of Directors. (i) All functions, powers, and duties of the Federal Loan Administrator, the Federal Works Administrator, and the head of any department or other agency relating to the administration or supervision of the agencies, functions, powers, and duties transferred hereunder. (j) All functions, powers, and duties of the Division of Defense Housing Coordination established by Executive Order No. 8632 of January 11, 1941, and of the Coordinator of Defense Housing: Provided, That such Division and such Coordinator shall continue to exercise such functions, powers, and duties until the appointment or designation of the National Housing Administrator. (k) All powers, rights, privileges, duties, and functions transferred to the Federal Works Administrator by Executive Order No. 8186 of June 29, 1939: Provided, That with respect to any functions, powers, and duties enumerated in sub-paragraphss (f) and (g) above, any agency now engaged in the construction or management of any project shall continue such activities on behalf of the National Housing Agency until such time as the National Housing Administrator shall determine that it is expedient for the Federal Public Housing Authority, herein provided for, to discharge such functions, powers, and duties with respect to such project through its own facilities. 2. The National Housing Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive a salary of $12,000 a year unless the Congress shall otherwise provide. Pending such appointment, an existing officer of the Government designated by the President shall act as National Housing Administrator. 3. There shall be three main conntituent units in the National Housing Agency. Each such uunit shall be administered by a commissioner acting under the direction and supervision of the National Housing Administrator. The unit administering the Federal Housing Administration and its functions, powers, and duties shall be known as the Federal Housing Administration, and the Federal Housing Administrator shall serve as Federal Housing Commissioner. The unit administering the functions, powers, and duties of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and its members shall be known as the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration, and the Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board shall serve as Federal Home Loan Bank Commissioner. The United States Housing Authority and its functions, powers, and duties shall be administered as the Federal Public Housing Authority, one of the main constituent units, and the Administrator of the United States Housing Authority shall serve as Federal Public Housing Commissioner. The agencies, functionas, powers, and duties enumerated in sub-paragraphs (c), (d), and (k) of paragraph 1 shall be administered in the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration, and those enumerated in sub-paragraphs (f) and (g) shall be administered in the Federal Public Housing Authority. The agency, functions, powers, and duties enumerated in sub-paragraph (h) of paragraph 1 shall also be administered by the Federal Public Housing Commissioner. The Administrator of the National Housing Agency may centralize in the office of the National Housing Administrator such budget, personnel, legal, procurement, research, planning, or other administrative services or functions common to the said constituent units as he may determine. 4. The capital stock of the Defense Homes Corporation shall be transferred from the Federal Loan Administrator to the National Housing Administrator, and the Federal Loan Administrator and the Defense Homes Corporation shall take all necessary action to effectuate such transfer and carry out the purposes hereof. 5. The Central Housing Committee is hereby abolished, and all of its assets, contracts, property (including office equipment and records), and unexpended balances of funds available for its use are hereby transferred to the National Housing Agency. 6. All assets, contracts, and property (including office equipment and records) of any agency hereby consolidated, and all assets, contracts, and property (including office equipment and records) which other agencies, including departments, have been using primarily in the administration of any function, power, or duty hereby consolidated or transferred, are hereby transferred, respectively, with such agency, function, power or duty. 7. Except as provided in paragraph 8, hereof, (1) all personnel of any agency hereby consolidated, and (2) all personnel of other agencies, including departments, who have been engaged primarily in the administration of any function, power, or duty hereby consolidated or transferred and who within thirty days after the appointment or designation of the National Housing Administrator are jointly certified for transfer by said Administrator and the head of the department or agency to which such personnel is attached, shall be transferred, respectively, with such agency, functions, power or duty; but any personnel transferred with functions, powers, or duties pursuant to this paragraph who are found by the National Housing Administrator to be in excess of the personnel necessary for the administration of such functions, powers, and duties shall be re-transferred under existing law to other positions in the Government or separated from the service. 8. The following personnel are not transferred hereunder: (1) The Directors and Officers of the Defense Homes Corporation, (2) the members of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board other than the Chairman, (3) the Directors of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, and (4) the Trustees of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. The offices of the foregoing personnel excepted from transfer by this paragraph (except in the case of the Defense Homes Corporation) are hereby vacated for the duration of this order: Provided, That the offices of the members of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board shall not be vacated until sixty days from the date of this order. The personnel of the Division of Defense Housing Coordination and of the Central Housing Committee are not transferred hereunder, except that the National Housing Administrator, within 60 days after his appointment or designation, may take over such of this personnel as are needed. During such period, all personnel of such Division and of such Committee may be retained by them in connection with the winding up of their affairs. 9. So much of the unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, or other funds (not otherwise transferred hereunder) available for the use of any agency in the exercise of any function, power, or duty consolidated by this order, or for the use of the head of any department or agency in the exercise of any such function, power, or duty, as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine (with the approval of the President), shall be transferred, respectively, to the National Housing Agency or the main constituent unit therein concerned, for its use in connection with the exercise of the functions, powers, or duties, respectively, to be administered by it hereunder. In determining the amount to be transferred, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget may include an amount to provide for the liquidation of obligations incurred against such appropriations, authorizations, allocations, or other funds prior to transfer. 10. All housing now owned by the United States and located on a military or naval reservation, post, or base is hereby transferred to the jurisdiction of the War or Navy Department, respectively, having jurisdiction of such reservation, post or base: Provided, That with respect to all housing developed by the War or Navy Department under Title II of Public 671, approved June 28, 1940, the Federal Public Housing Authority shall take all necessary steps to transfer such jurisdiction and carry out the purpose hereof, including the transfer of title to the United States and including repayment (out of any funds available therefor) of the cost of such housing for reimbursement of the Bond Account from which funds were transferred to pay such costs. 11. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall allocate to the National Housing Agency, from appropriations, authorizations, allocations, or other funds available for the administrative expenses of the Federal Loan Agency and the Federal Works Agency (relating to the administration of the agencies and functions transferred therefrom hereunder) and of the agencies and functions, powers, and duties consolidated hereunder, such sums, and in such proportions, as he may find necessary for the administrative expenses of the National Housing Agency. None of the agencies established or consolidated hereunder shall incur any obligations for administrative expenses except pursuant to appropriations, allocations, or other authorizations of funds specifically available now or hereafter for administrative expenses. 12. The National Housing Administrator may appoint necessary personnel nad make necessary expenditures to carry out the functions, powers, and duties of the National Housing Agency. The Administrator and the Commissioners hereunder may delegate their respective functions, powers, and duties to such agencies, officials, or personnel as they may designate, respectively. Until the appointment or designation of a National Housing Administrator, the Commissioners respectively shall exercise such of the functions, powers, and duties of the National Housing Administrator as relate to the agencies, functions, powers and duties to be administered by such Commissioners respectively. 13. Nothing herein shall impair or affect any outstanding obligations or contracts of any agency consolidated hereunder or of the United States of America (including its pledge of faith to the payment of all annual contributions now or |