Housing Researcher

Charles F. Palmer '18, former Coordinator of Defense Housing, was given a new assignment when President Roosevelt merged the country's housing agencies into a single unit headed by the director of the Bureau of the Budget in February. Freed of his duties, he was requested by the President to leave at once for England with picked assistants to make a study of war-time housing there as it has developed under the impact of two and a half years of war.

Entering the realty business immediately after leaving Hanover in 1915, Mr. Palmer has been associated with it ever since with the exception of a period when he served as a cavalry officer in the World War. He has worked in realty in San Diego, Santa Barbara and Atlanta, where he has been president of Palmer, Inc. since 1921. A pioneer in slum clearance in the United States, he has headed many housing groups, among them the National Association of Housing Officials and the Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta, and was a delegate of the United States Government to the 16th International Housing and Planning Congress in Mexico City in 1938.