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Spiczak, vice president, Home Federal Savings & Loan Assn., Chicago; Reed Hartman, vice president, Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. and chairman of the Electric Industry Coordinating Group.
GE offers to finance kitchen remodeling
General Electric, often rated as the toughest competitor in the appliance business, has introduced another "first"ť in a bid for a bigger cut of the market.
The idea: a kitchen remodeling finance plan. GE will finance the total cost of the remodeling if the homeowner buys two major GE appliances, one of which must be either a built-in or plumbed-in item.
Customers must pay 10% down with minimum monthly payments of $20 and a discount of from 5.25 to 6%, varying with the size of the loan. Maximum repayment time is five years, but GE points out that most loans will be repaid much sooner because of the $20 minimum monthly payment.
First FHA Sec. 221 project: one house in Corpus Christi
FHA and NAHB pointed proudly toward Corpus Christi, Tex. last month and announced that the first housing under Sec. 221 homes for low-income families displaced by an urban renewal project was underway.
The trail blazing came a year-and-a-half after the law became effective. It involved one house. Builder R. O. Woodson said he had no immediate plans for others. Nor did he have a buyer in sight for the one underway an 816 sq. ft., $8,000 frame model on slab. He built the house with a commitment from Fannie May.
Woodson hopes to get buyers from slum area to be razed for a $50 million highway program and $14 million bridge over the Corpus Christi ship channel. An estimated 100 displaced families will be eligible for Sec. 221 financing.
Housing Center seen key to housing industrialization
Is NAHBâ…› new National Housing Center a leadership weapon which can speed the industrialization of housing?
One man who thinks it could be is Jan van Ettinger, director of Holland's Bouwcen-trum, the Rotterdam housing center from which NAHB leaders got the idea for their own building in Washington.
Mechanical Engineer van Ettinger has just made his first visit to NAHB's Housing Center. Its directors were impressed by his penetrating advice on how to use a housing center as a lever to promote progress in an industry which is still closer to the handicraft stage than most other US industries half its size.
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