D.C. DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We are writing about a very serious shortage of funds for the farm labor housing program operated by the Farm:25722 ers Home Administration under sections 514 and 516 of the Housing Act of 1949. At this writing the backlog of requests for funds exceeds $18.7 million. The housing of migrant and seasonal farmworkers is appallingly inadequate. Of the 600.003 housing units in which the *nations 3 million farmworkers and their families subsist. at least half. or 300.000 units. are so substandard they need complete replacement. The remaining 300.000 units need some degree of repalz or renovation.