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- F. H. A. Land Planning
Unit Notes Effort to
Supply Small Homes
More Than 90,000
Mapped in 6 Months in
Eligible Subdivisions
More than 90.000 new homes in
subdivision areas eligible for Fed
eral Housing Administration mort
gage insurance were planned in the
first half of 1939 by operative
’ builders to meet the national de
mand for moderately priced homes,
Seward H. Mott, director of the
F. H. A. Land Planning Division,
said today.
More than a third of these pro
tects are already under construction,
Mr. Mott said, indicating the cur
rent market for housing through
out the country. This program of
new subdivision development takes
into account only those areas which
have been analyzed by the F. H. A.
land planning staff in the last six
months and found eligible as sites
for insured home mortgage financ
* ing.
Conservative Estimate.
“This estimate is conservative, to
say the least,” Mr. Mott said, “The
potential number of new single
family homes in new protected
neighborhoods, even after allowing
30 per cent for lots which will not
be utilized when a neighborhood is
fully 'built up.’ is over 93.800. Since
only subdivisions lying in the path
of residential growth and considered
‘ripe for development’ are accepted
for analysis by the F. H. A.'s Land
Planning Division, this number
may be considered a fairly ac
curate indication of the demand for
new homes generated during the
first six months of 1939. To this
figure must be added vacant lots
remaining in subdivisions previously
qualified and acceptable locations
In established neighborhoods.
“This volume of new subdivision
construction represents the amount
which the building industry con
* siders needed to cope with the cur
rent demand for new homes.”
Submit Subdivision Plans.
Through a nation-wide land plan
ning staff the F. H. A. has analyzed
1 220 new subdivisions since Jan
uary 1. Mr. Mott said that the
Increase in the number of subdi
visions analyzed in the first six
months of 1939 showed a gain of
163 per cent over the last six
months of 1938. A tendency among
■ developers to submit their areas to
the F. H. A. for approval prior to
the start of construction has be
come increasingly apparent, he said.
‘ After approximately four years
of work in the field of land planning
and subdivision analysis,” Mr. Mott
added, “the F. H. A. has caught up,
to a great extent, in the work of re
habilitating existing areas which
were falling into obsolescence be
1 cause of poor original planning. For !
a long time we centralized our ac
tivity in this task and today the
work has shown marked results.
"We are now devoting careful
study to new developments which
are constantly submitted to us for
analysis, and builders throughout
the country are showing an in
creasing confidence in F. H. A.
standards and suggestions as to
plot planning and neighborhood
control. As our work is basic in
the effort to provide better homes
and better neighborhood conditions,
it is becoming more and more evi
dent that subdivision developers
consider our standards economically
sound and contributory to salable
and lasting housing.”
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Building
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per cent and for additions, altera
tions and repairs, 8 per cent.
10 Per Cent Above Last Year.
“As compared with July, 1938.
k however, total building construc
tion showed an increase of 10 per
cent. There was a gain in permit
valuations for all types of con
struction. New residential buildings
increased 6 per cent; new non-resi
dential buildings, 20 per cent, and
additions, alterations and repairs, 7
per cent over the year period.”
Permits issued during July pro
vided for 25.585 family-dwelling
units. Of those, 5.567 were in proj
ects under the jurisdiction of the
United States Housing Authority.
June permits provided for 26,552
units, of which 2,877 were in U. S.
H. A. projects.
The data collected by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics include con
tracts awarded by Federal and State
Governments in addition to private
and municipal construction. For
July, 1939. Federal and State con
struction amounted to $21,622,000:
for June, 1939, to $33,823,000, and !
for July, 1938, to $27,102,000.
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By DOROTHY DUCAS AND
ELIZABETH GORDON.
However much the heat spells of
August may have sent your mind
seeking cool thoughts, it's the time
of the year to think about heat—
artificially made heat, to insure a
comfortable house next winter. New
heating plants or improvements for
old ones must be installed during
the summer months, when the heat
ing plant is on vacation.
If you are considering installing
an oil burner warm air heating sys
tem. why not choose one which does
everything meriting the name of
winter air conditioning? Such a
system filters the air inside your
house, adds the proper humidity,
circulates the air throughout the
house land will do it in summer, too.
without the heat* and gives con
trolled heat to all your rooms.
A new feature of one such con
ditioner is the humidifying principle
on which it w'orks. The moisture
comes not in form of a w-ater spray,
but as steam vapor mixing with the
air stream in circulation. The water
used for supplying that moisture
which is so badly needed in warmed
air is always boiling Therefore it
is sterilized, giving you pure mois
ture and pure air to breathe.
The air is preheated in a U-shaped
radiator, then drawn through filters
to remove dust, dirt and pollen
w-hich it might have collected as it
passed through the house. From the
filters it goes through the blower
into a heating chamber from which
it passes through the humidity gen
erator with its supply of sterilized
moisture, and on up to the rooms
of your house. It is drawn out of
the rooms after it has discharged
its heat, brought back to the heat
ing unit and goes through the same
process again.
Its oil furnace element, which Is
housed in a pastel enamel cabinet
with generous chromium trimming,
is made entirel • of welded steel with
generous heating surfaces, designed
to give a smooth flow of heat at
least possible cost. That pre-heat
ing chamber, you see, captures extra
heat from the flue gases which might
otherwise be lost up the chimney.
The more surfaces you expose to
heat and the longer you prolong
the heat travel, the more heat you
get from the fuel burned.
' * * * *
From house-heating equipment it
is only a short jump to hot-water
heating apparatus. Here are two
new kinds of water-heating equip
ment. One, for boilers, is separate
from the house-heating equipment
and works all year around. The
other, for warm-air furnaces, is
a stack heater, which in winter uti
lizes heat from the burner gases
oi) their way through the stack
to the chimney, thus saving hot
water heating fuel costs for the
duration of the heating season.
You would need an extra heater for
summer.
The separate heater may well be
what is known as a tankless heater,
which requires no bulky storage tank
in your basement and gives instan
taneous hot water at a rate of from
220 to 320 gallons an hour. The tank
less heater we have in mind has one
continuous flow of water through
copper coils inside the casing, which,
incidentally, comes as small as an
ordinary wastebasket.
These coils are made all in one
solid piece, with no joints to re
strict the flow or get clogged if the
water happens to have a chemical
deposit in it. as is true in some sec
I tions of the country. The coil starts
1 at the top of the heater, coils itself
around and around inside the casing
with just enough room between the
coders for the hot boiler water to
circulate; then, having filled the
space next to the outer part of the
tankless heater, this coils inside it
self and works back up toward the
top, finally emerging through a mix
ing valve into the hot-water pipes
This mixing valve is an important
feature. It means you can set the
temperature of the water which is
delivered'at your lavatory or sink,
and it won’t come to you any hotter
or any colder at any time.
The stack heater consists of a
water jacket with numerous flns on
its inner side which extract heat.
It is Inserted in the stack and con
nected with an indirect heater,
which in turn heats the water in
a storage tank. Heat which would
otherwise be wasted is thus turned
to useful purposes. It Insures a
supply of hot water during the
greater part of the heating season
at no extra cost for the fuel which
heats it.
Your own needs as regards hot
water and space available in your
basement should guide you in your
choice of heaters.
But if you are going to do any
thing about heat for the coming win
ter, now is the time.
* * * *
Do you like to keep track of the
heat in your rooms, both winter
and summer? Do you also dislike
a thermometer hung on a wall or
standing on a desk with no rela
tion to your decorative scheme?
Then you should know about the
new thermometer which is built
right into the switch plates which
control your electric lights.
The switch plate is finished in
satin-chrome, and to the left of
the button which snaps on the light
is a thermometer with a cheerful
red spirit-gauge, magnified by a lens
tube that insures easy reading. The
thermometer is fully protected by
the metal of the switch plate and
is guaranteed commercially accurate.
And switches usually are located
at the right spot on a wall for best
reading of room temperature.
The switch and thermometer-in
one may be installed in a couple of
minutes, taking up no more room
than your ordinary switch plate did.
They cost less than a dolar, and
can be instated in every room of
the house where regulation of the
temperature is a matter of health
and comfort.
Last year more than $1,000,000
worth of thermometers of one sort
or another were sold in this coun
try in hardware stores alone, show
ing that most of us do likp to keep
track of heat. This is the first
time a combination thermometer
and switch plate has been available.
A brand-new idea—your friends will
notice it, and admire.
Editor's note—For further infor
mation about products described
here, write the Misses Oucas and |
Gordon, 230 West Forty-first street,
New York City, and inclose stamped,
self-addressed envelope.
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