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Harry Truman: The acute shortage of rental housing makes it imperative to continue emergency rent control.

On the recordFebruary 22, 1948
The acute shortage of rental housing makes it imperative to continue emergency rent control.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress on Housing

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