A special institute to study the question of the acute housing shortage in Palestine and neighboring countries has been formed here with the cooperation of the Jewish Engineers Association, the Palestine Government, the Hebrew University and the Haifa Technical Institute. The new agency will advise prospective builders on the newest American methods of manufacturing pre-fabricated houses.
Business and labor leaders are studying the possibility of making Palestine a center of new building methods in the Middle East and a source of pre-fabricated houses for the entire area. Palestine possesses eighty-five percent of the necessary building materials, lacking only iron and timber. Large-scale construction activities here, leading economic circles point out, would not only help to solve the housing crisis, but would also provide employment for thousands of workers in the post-war transition period.
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