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 146 Conditions.

R e a l - e s t a t e construction. Credit controls. 60 U.S.C. app. §§ 2131-2136.

State and local rent control.

Rent increase.

PUBLIC LAW 96—JULY 31, 1951

[65 STAT.

Director of Defense Mobilization, acting jointly. No area shall be certified as a critical defense housing area under the authority granted in this subsection unless all the following conditions exist in such area: "(1) a new defense plant or installation has been or is to be provided, or an existing defense plant or installation has been or is to be reactivated or its operation substantially expanded; "(2) substantial in-migration of defense workers or military personnel is required to carry out activities at such plant or installation; and "(3) a substantial shortage of housing required for such defense workers or military personnel exists or impends which has resulted or threatens to result in excessive rent increases and which impedes or threatens to impede activities of such defense plant or installation. "(m) Whenever an area has been certified under subsection (1) to be a critical defense housing area, real-estate construction credit controls imposed under title VI of the Defense Production Act of 1950 shall be relaxed to the extent necessary to encourage construction of housing for defense workers and military personnel: Provided, That the certification, pursuant to subsection (1), that an area is a critical defense housing area shall not be effective in such area for any of the purposes of this section until such real-estate construction credit controls have been relaxed as provided in this subsection to the extent necessary in the determination of the President. The fact that any area has been certified as a critical defense housing area under subsection (1) shall not make such area ineligible for the location of additional defense plants, facilities, or installations, or as a source of additional military procurement of any sort. " (n) No maximum rents shall be established under subsection (1) for housing accommodations in any State where rent control is in effect or in any locality where local rent control is in effect, unless the rent component of the Consumers' Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for such State or locality has increased more than the United States average of the rent component of such index during the last six months for which such index is available immediately preceding the establishment of such maximum rents. The rent component of the Consumers' Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for any State shall be the average, weighted by population as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, for all reported cities in the State, except that, where only one city is reported, the rent component for the State shall be the rent component for that city. Upon the establishment of maximum rents pursuant to subsection (1) for housing accommodations in a State in which State rent control is in effect. State rent control shall thereupon terminate. Upon the establishment of maximum rents pursuant to subsection (1) for housing accommodations in a locality in which local rent control is in effect, local rent control shall thereupon terminate. The rent component for any locality subject to local rent control shall be the rent component as established by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for that locality. Where data concerning rents have not been heretofore collected for a city in a State having State rent control or for a particular locality which has local rent control, the President may cause a survey to be made by the Bureau of I^abor Statistics for the purpose of establishing a rent component for that State or locality. For the purposes of this subsection, State rent control shall be deemed in effect in any State in which maximum rents are controlled pursuant to State law throughout the State, regardless of whether maximum rents are actually in effect in every locality of the State. "(o) I n order to compensate for increases which have occurred in costs and prices, the maximum rent in effect on the date of enact-

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