Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Housing Plans for Cities
Any causes which restrict the opportunity for home owning strike at the foundations of modern industrial life. Workers who are not home owners are more easily subject to all the cross currents of unrest and radicalism. They lack the stamina and conservatism that home owning gives. They are constantly shifting. Employers know what this costs industry.
Unfortunately, present-day conditions have tended to restrict home owning. Perhaps it would be too much to say that inadequate housing is at the bottom of the present industrial unrest, but no one can doubt it has been a large, determining fac tor.
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