I again recommend the early enactment of this legislation.

By reason of the reorganizations made by the Plan, I have found it necessary to include therein provisions for the appointment of (1) an Administrator to head the Housing and Home Finance Agency, (2) the three members of the Home Loan Bank Board, and (3) two Commissioners to head the Federal Housing Administration and the Public Housing Administration, respectively.

I am transmitting herewith Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1947, prepared in accordance with the Reorganization Act of 1945.

A single establishment will unquestionably make for greater efficiency and economy.

In brief, this Reorganization Plan groups nearly all of the permanent housing agencies and functions of the Government, and the remaining emergency housing activities, in a Housing and Home Finance Agency with the following constituent operating agencies.

The primary responsibility for meeting housing needs rests, and must continue to rest, with private industry, as I have stated on other occasions.

To avoid this danger and to accomplish the needed changes promptly, it is desirable to employ a reorganization plan under the Reorganization Act of 1945.

I need hardly point out that such a scattering of these interrelated functions would not only be inefficient and wasteful but also would seriously impair their usefulness.

The Plan places in the Housing and Home Finance Administrator the functions heretofore vested in the Federal Loan Administrator and the Federal Works Administrator with respect to the housing agencies and functions formerly administered within the Federal Loan and Federal Works Agencies, together with supervision and direction of certain emergency housing activities for the remainder of their existence.

The provision of adequate housing will remain a major national objective throughout the next decade.

Priority assistance is needed in cases certified by the Secretary of State to be of high public importance and essential to the successful carrying out of the foreign policy of the United States.

I hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the provisions of the act.

It is still essential to maintain certain limited materials controls, in order to prevent harm to our own economy and give concrete support to our foreign policy.

If production abroad had reached similar heights, no materials controls at all would be needed today.

Our own food production has reached great heights, and our own food supplies are excellent.

Great damage can be done by inability to obtain an occasional machine, or machine parts needed to complete a program or project.

This goal can be reached only through a national medical insurance program, under which all people who are covered by an insurance fund are entitled to necessary medical, hospital and related services.

The heart of that program is national health insurance.