As of last June 30. Farmers Home had applications on hand totaling $28 million for farm labor housing grants. To abandon this program is a bitter blow to the quarter of a million migrant workers and their families who for the most part live in miserable shacks and barracklike structures. The special tragedy of the rural housing freeze is that it is far more drastic than the moratorium that went into effect at the same time in the urban housing programs. Because the urban housing programs whether they are for single family homes or for rental projects are handled in big blockscommitments made for hundreds of units at a timethere was enough subsidized urban housing approved last January to keep the builders buildingalthough at s. considerably lower level than previouslyduring the remainder of fiscal 1973 and all of fiscal 1974 at the same rate they were erecting housing units in the first half of fiscal 1973.