application of davisbacon act to low-rent housing projects consisting of privately built housing

application of davisbacon act to low-rent housing projects consisting of privately built housing Sec. 1003. Section 16(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended by inserting after “the development of the project involved” the following: “ (including a project for the use of privately built housing in any case, other than under the authority of section 23 of this Act, where the public housing agency and the builder or sponsor enter into an agreement for such use before construction or rehabilitation is commenced), and that each such laborer or mechanic shall receive compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times his basic rate of pay for all hours worked in any workweek in excess of eight hours in any workday or forty hours in the workweek, as the case may be”.