This year. no funds were requested for this program. We must take steps to provide adequate Federal funds. The poverty of farmworkers and their substandard housing has been well documented. The average migrant home consists of two rooms for an average family of 6.4 people. To refuse even this modest level of funding borders on insensitivity. The Farmers Home Administration indicates that 100.000 new and rehabilitated housing units are needed for migrant farmworkers alone. When nonmigratory farmworkers are included. the need is three or four times that number. At least half a million housing units are needed and only a few thousand are being produced each year.