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Statement on Public Building Projects.

September 07, 1931

THE PRESIDENT said:

"That portion of the Federal program of aid to unemployment comprised in the great expansion of public buildings under the Treasury Department shows the following progress since the report of July 15. There are a total of 750 projects which have so far been specifically authorized, and 164 firms of architects are engaged in plans and supervision. The attached tables show the progress of individual projects which may be summarized:

"First: A total of 115 buildings have been completed at a total cost of $39,869,569. Three buildings have been completed during the past month.

"Second: There were 229 buildings in construction at the first of September by contract, at an estimated cost of $181,393,100. There having been 37 contracts let during the last month, of a total value in excess of $25,000,000.

"Third: There are 65 projects in which the sites have been arranged, drawings are completed, for which construction contracts have been invited, of a total estimated cost of $19,319,600.

"Fourth: There are 202 projects in which sites have been selected and on which plans are now under way of a total estimated cost of $178,766,523.

"Fifth: At the first of this month there were 199 projects in which the sites have been determined upon and are in process of being acquired. The estimated cost of the buildings thereon being $49,545,400.

"It is estimated that the number of men now directly and indirectly employed on this program is 39,000. It is estimated that the number that will be directly and indirectly employed on January 1st is 100,000.

"Tables showing the progress of the different projects in the different categories are attached thereto."

Note: The White House issued the statement following the President's news conference of September 4, 1931, but embargoed its release until Monday, September 7, 1931. Detailed tables and lists issued with the statement are not printed but are available for examination at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.

Herbert Hoover, Statement on Public Building Projects. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/212066

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