…this board of 5 to 7 men in Washington can determine what is socially desirable housing in every community in the land, and under the powers conferred they can make their judgments effective. Call it by any name you choose the smell of such regimentation of American homes will be the same in the nostrils of the American home-owning public.
Miss Marie L. Obenauer, Joint Chairman, Board of Governors of Home Owners’ Protective Enterprise (pgs 384-389), Hearings. Committee on Banking and Currency. Senate.
Wednesday, May 16, 1934
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