Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report on Housing Conditions in Springfield, Massachusetts: Prepared for the Housing Committee of the Union Relief Association
The point of View of the committee was constructive and with an outlook into the future rather than critical and of the present. When the investigation was started, neither the committee nor the agent engaged to undertake the work expected to find any serious housing evils such as were discovered later, and it was a source of considerable disappointment to find that much had been left undone in preventing the development and existence of housing conditions which are a menace to the community. In engaging the Bureau of Social Research of New England it was felt that an outside agency would be better prepared to gather the material and to consider it from the broad point of view of the student of social conditions, without local prejudice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
