This is necessary because the object of the Defense Housing Act is to construct housing that would be ready for occupancy at some future date when the area would sustain the impact of increased defense activity. However. rent control deals with a situation in the present. and therefore the conditions for certification of a critical defense area under the Rent Act should deal in the present. For example. under the present law the President may impose full Federal rent control in an area which may sustain substantial immigration of defense workers at some future date and which would result in a threat of excessive rent Increases. There is no basis whatsoever for providing such broad authority to impose rent control because of a future need. Particularly. is this so when we realize that when an area is certified for rent control. the rents may be rolled back 6 months. a year or all the way back to June 24. 1950.
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