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Press Release, Speech of President Harry S. Truman at Richard Allen Housing Project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Press Release, Speech of President Harry S. Truman at Richard Allen Housing Project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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S. TRUMAN
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
SERVICE"
GOVERNMENT
INMEDIATE RELEASE
IM.EDIATE RELEASE
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT AT THE RICHARD ALLEN
HOUSING PROJECT; PHILADELPHIA, PA.
OCTOBER 6, 1948, 3.45 PM, EST
Thank you verymuch. I am very highly appreciative of the fact
that you have shown me some of the housing conditions here in Philadelphia.
For your information, I had seen them before. I have been all
over these projects on a number of occasions, and I want to say to you
that it is not the fault of your President or the Democratic minority
that you haven't the funds to operate here.
The housing bill died in the House of Representatives. It
passed the Senate twice. I sincerely hope that eventually we will get
that housing bill through, SO we can promote projects like this. They
are not a burden on the taxpayer. They eventually pay themselves out.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the real estate
lobby insists on preventing our doing just such pro jects as this.
Thank you very much.
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