Engineering progress in 1932. bridges : Eng. News-Record, 110, 35

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1933
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 155 KB
• Volume: 215
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(33)90098-8

✦ Synopsis

Engineering Progress in 1932. Housing.-(Eng. News-Record, IIO, 35.) Large-scale low-cost housing became a focal point of widespread interest during the year.

Although no actual construction has yet been carried out, the projects receiving close study numbered almost IOO. The reason for so much interest being shown in this phase of construction is laid to the Relief Act which listed housing projects as self-liquidating and eligible for loans. There has also been throughout the country a pronounced interest and more than ordinary activity in modernization and reconstruction of buildings, homes and apartment houses.

Much of this activity originated in the fact that financial institutions, acquiring ownership through foreclosures, endeavor to make the structures produce increased revenue.