Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1948 — Page 17
A\YS ther ates sual ular
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Increases Needed Record - breaking construction of 10,000 housing units in Marion County since the first of 1946)
single - houses, 98 double houses and 69 apartment units, { Mr. Palmer predicts that the total number of housing units stajied this year will exceed that
construction, the demand for new homes both to buy and rent seems as strong now as a year ago,” he said. “This shortage is due partly to the rapid increases in the population of Indianapolis with its many new industries locating here and with the expansion of industries already. established,” he pointed out. . Need Is Increasing The Home Week chairman ex-! plains .that thousands off extra employees are coming in to In-| dianapolis and Marion County and need housing. He said statistics show that industrial employment in Indianapolis has more than doubled since 1940 and is not now much lower than the! peak of wartime employment in!
Mr. Palmer pointed out the increasés in building costs are mainly in steel products and in| heavy materials due, in part, to freight increases. Most other costs are fairly steady. 4
Balinkin to Talk At Parley Friday
Prof. Isay Balinkin, associate! professor of experimental physics! at University of Cincinnati, will speak at an informational meeting of the Indi- wt ana Chapter of y Producers’ Council, Inc. noon Lincoln, The program is sponsored by the Wege Marble and Tile Co. as its part of the observance here of National Home Week. Harold D. Bish-'
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. PROJECT 27-2118 MEDFORD AVE. Homewood Construction Co., Inc. 1604 W. Morris St. Two Houses
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