Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fight for Better Homes
Where one city has been halted by seemingly insuperable obstacles or has gone astray in its endeavors, another has succeeded. Where many cities are just at the beginning of their task, others have already made considerable progress, and so are in a position to point out dangers and pitfalls.
Two years ago scarcely half a dozen cities in America realized that they had a housing problem. To-day more than one hundred cities have begun to see that they are not cities of homes so long as they contain districts where people are huddled together in houses which, while they may protect from the weather, shut out light and air and afford no sanitary conditions.
Even those most familiar with bous ing conditions in our cities and townshave been astonished as the work develops to find not only how bad are the conditions under which we are trying to raise American citizens and efficient workers, but also how uni versal are these bad conditions.
To know that bad housing is an evil of far-reaching effects, to be convinced that active measures for the improve ment of housing conditions should at once be undertaken, is, however, only the beginning of a vitally important and very difficult task. The ends to be aimed at, the policy to be pursued, the means to be used, are not always clear. Mistakes in these may not only result in wasted years of effort, but what is of far more consequence, may result in discrediting the whole move ment or in giving a community wrong and unfit standards.
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