In this period. 8.000 family housing units and 4.000 individual housing units have been built or repaired with funds from the farm labor housing program. This is an average of approximately $5.000 per home. The urgency of the need for increased congressional support of this program is underlined by the Department of Agricultures own estimate that 130.000 housing units are needed immediately to provide adequate living conditions for the Nations nearly 5 million migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. Domestic farmworkers are among the poorest of our countrys lowincome workers. In 1972. the average seasonal farmworker had an annual income of only $2.019. But the poverty of farm laborers goes beyond substandard wages to include the most disgraceful housing conditions in the Nation. The average migrant home consists of two rooms for a family of 6.4 people. These homes are located in farm labor housing camps where in all too many cases little or no effort is made to provide sanitary conditions. We had a tragic example of the neglect of sanitary needs in a farm labor camp in March 1973 when a typhoid epidemic broke out in a farm labor housing project in Florida.