Homes for Workers
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FOREWORD, THE most pressing problem facing the people of the United States, for which no final solution has as yet been demonstrated, is that of housing low income groups. How great is the need The United States Senate answers, reporting that 13,200,000 new dwelling units must be built by 1945. That requires an average construction of 1,3 20,000 new houses and apartments each year for the next 10 years. What is being done The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that in 257 typical cities surveyed only 22,063 new homes were built in 1934. In the more normal year of 1925 only 491,222 homes were completed in these cities. Therefore, even if the private construction industry comes back to pre-depression full strength, it will be able to meet less than half of the need. What will happen to wage earners Even if this enormous deficit in all kinds of housing were made up, past experience suggests that unless some new techniques are developed little or none of the new construction will be of the kind which low-income families can afford. Unless we very quickly change our habits of thought and action about housing, workers will have to remain content with the cast-off, frequently worn out, almost always deficient houses discarded by other sections of our population. Homes for Workers is a simple statement of the housing situation which confronts American workers and their Governments - Federal, State and Municipal, It has been prepared as a joint project by the Public Works Administration and by the Works Progress Administration, for use in adult education classes conducted by the Educational Division of WPA. Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes, under whose direction the Federal Government has been constructing 25,000 dwelling units in 51 projects located in 36 cities as a demonstration of low-rent housing possibilities, says that the future housing program is a matter for the cities to solve. The cities are what their citizens make them and their citizens are, in large me
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