HOMES FOR VETERANS

Creator: Century Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 44618, LI 252.1 - HOMES FOR VETERANS - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Office of the Housing Expediter. (1946 - 07/31/1951). A municipal emergency housing council discusses the problem of housing returning veterans and methods of constructing new dwellings in spite of building material shortages, labor deficiencies, restrictive building codes, etc. Cites statistics on housing units needed. Prefabricated houses are manufactured and assembled. Congress passes the Veterans Emergency Housing Act.