DECEMBER 11.1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
PAGE SEVEN
Housing Shortage Is Problem Of Governments All Over World
(By United Press)
In the wake of the four horsemen of total war has come the less deadly but nevertheless grievous plague of housing shortage.
world, building of homes is being hampered by material shortages and other troubles.
In all parts of the world, governments are struggling with the necessity of finding adequate shelter for the inhabitants. And in all parts of the world, building of homes is being $ ^{ \textcircled{8}} $
Britain needs 4,000,000 homes; Italy a like number. France is short 2,000,000, Bulgaria 500,000, the Netherlands 400,000, Norway 100,000, and even far-off Iran requires 50,000.
Popular support for Britain's Labor government is tied ever closer to its ability to solve the housing situation.
The recent invasion of 'squatters' who briefly took over luxury apartments in the West End section of London merely dramatized a problem which has worried many British leaders. Returning soldiers seeking homes for their families also have emphasized national impatience with the housing situation.
Of an estimated 12,500,000 homes in Britain, more than one-third were damaged by enemy action and 202,-000 were snashed beyond repair. During the war years only 200,000 houses were built, while the normal total for the six years would have been over 2,000,000.
Latest figures show that since the Labor government assumed office July 27, 1945, until Sept. 1, 1946, the number of permanent and temporary houses actually completed was just over 70,000, though nearly 450,000 were "projected." The government is widely blamed.
France's home-building program is tottering although some strides have been made in restoring wardamaged dwellings and erecting temporary barracks.
Only 14,150 houses have been put up in France since the liberation, a Ministry of Reconstruction spokesman said. An additional 8,200 buildings of the prefabricated type also have been erected, he said.
The spokesman blamed the slowness of the reconstruction program to scarcity of building materials because of the lack of sufficient coal to manufacture them, and shortage of skilled labor.
One of the most crying needs of Italy's bombed cities and shelled villages is 4,000,000 apartments, either repaired or newly built.
To fill the needs of the population, technicians have estimated that 2.000,000 new houses must be constructed in France soon.
Until July of this year the government had built 6,531 rooms in wooden barracks, 1,400 rooms in stone wall barracks, and 90,000 rooms in "popular houses," which look more like normal homes. The average cost per room in the "popular houses" is 140,000 lire.
Private initiative has not undertaken any housing projects because it does not know whether the new Italian constitution will protect private property, all rents are frozen, and borrowed capital costs too much—in interest.
A critical housing shortage in the Netherlands currently is affecting 36 per cent of the population in one way or another, even to the extent of holding up hundreds of marriages.
A poll revealed that 36 per cent of the population feels the pinch, many still living in barns, chicken coops, or so-called "emergency houses."
Shortages of raw materials are complicating the housing problem in Norway as the government continues to revise downward the number of dwellings it hopes to complete soon.
Brick and concrete are two of the foremost items, with insufficient labor forces adding other headaches.
Bulgaria needs an estimated 500,000 houses for its homeless, but shortages of materials and the high cost of building are likely to stymie postwar construction.
The populations of such Iranian cities as Tehran remain swollen to
Carnegie Institute Almost In The 'Red'
Pittsburgh (UP)—The world-famous Carnegie Institute, which houses one of the nation's leading museums and art departments, is going broke in the year of its 50th anniversary.
almost twice their pre-war size. At least 50,000 additional houses are needed to house Tehran's citizens, and it will be another five years before all of its homeless population is housed comfortably.
"Things are getting bad." said the Institute's president, William Frew. "We will make a public appeal for financial support some time after Jan. 1."
Mr. Frew said the $$ million endowment left by the philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, Pittsburgh steel magnate, has not been producing enough income to make ends meet
He explained that the finance, embarrassment was caused by decreasing income on securities.
"People have taken these things for granted. Now we will find out whether or not they are interested enough to keep it going."
Mr. Frew placed the institute's income as "just about half of what it was in 1930."
He was referring to the operations of the Institute's three divisions—fine arts department, museum, and library. They are visited by about 100,000 persons annually. In the last year alone, 15 are exhibits were held, including the 1945 showing of painting in the United States, a wartime substitute for the International Art exhibit.
Our Sun Not So Hot
Berkeley, Cal. (UP)—University of California astronomers report that about 100 "island universes" in the galaxy have tens of thousands of stars as bright or brighter than the sun.
From Sky To Earth
Lowell, Mass. (UP) - William Purtell of Lowell awoke recently to find that fire had burned the roof off his rooming houses. Firemen brought him down to earth on a ladder.
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