Excerpt from Housing Plans for Cities
The question of providing adequate housing is one of the most pressing and acute problems confronting hundreds of communities. It is a problem not easy of solution or permitting of postponement. Delay only increases the many obstacles to meeting construction needs of the country.
War restrictions caused the number of homes to fall behind the normal needs of a growing population. This condition has been aggravated especially in cities which have undergone a comparatively recent and great industrial development.
The housing problem in these cities is most acute. While many communities have been active in getting new industries, they have given little heed to adequate housing for the hundreds of workers the industries brought to the community.
Cities took pride in the amount of capital invested in their industries, giving slight concern to the fact that sufficient and decent housing for the workers was also a very proper division of the industrial capital. It was a very natural oversight. In the past the matter of housing had been left largely to the individual.
Short a Million Homes.
Perhaps if the war had not so disturbed industrial and social conditions the housing problem could have taken care of itself. But the war resulted in sub-normal construction. Even communities which have shown only normal growth are facing a house shortage.
It was estimated by the Department of Labor that at the close of the war the United States needed a million homes. Just how much this need has been decreased or increased is difficult to determine, but from general indications it is reasonable to believe that the shortage in homes has been increased since the estimate of the Department of Labor.
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