The housing of the unskilled wage earner America's next problem, by Edith Elmer Wood.

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Main Author: Wood, Edith Elmer, 1871-1945.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, Macmillan 1919.
Series:American social progress series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. I. INTRODUCTION. Housing and the War
  • Purpose of This Study
  • Extent of Bad Housing Conditions in the United States
  • The Housing Problem and Its Solution
  • Ch. II. HOUSING CONDITIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. Housing History of New York
  • Housing History of Other Localities
  • Ch. III. RESTRICTIVE HOUSING LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Restrictive and Constructive Legislation
  • Provisions of the Veiller Model Housing Law
  • Tenement House Laws and Administration in New York
  • States with Tenement House or Housing Laws
  • City Legislation
  • Conclusion
  • Ch. IV. MODEL HOUSING IN THE UNITED STATES UNDER PRIVATE INITIATIVE. Philanthropic Trust Funds
  • Limited Dividend Housing Companies
  • Octavia Hill Enterprises
  • Industrial Housing by Employers
  • Chamber of Commerce Enterprises
  • General Conclusions
  • Ch. V. THE EXPERIENCE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Identity of the Housing Problem
  • Government Aid and Its Forms
  • The Pioneers
  • Other European Nations, South America and Cuba
  • Self-Governing British Colonies
  • Ch. VI. THE BEGINNINGS OF CONSTRUCTIVE HOUSING LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Massachusetts Homestead Commission
  • Other Beginnings and Attempts at Beginnings
  • Developments Which Will Fit in with a Constructive Housing Program
  • War Housing by the Federal Government
  • Ch. VII. OBJECTIONS TO CONSTRUCTIVE HOUSING LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Presumption in Favor of Constructive Housing Legislation in the United States
  • Constitutional Objection
  • Economic Objection
  • Social Objection
  • Philosophical Objection
  • Pessimistic Objection
  • Ch. VIII. OUTLINE OF A COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING POLICY FOR THE UNITED STATES. Which of the Four Types of Constructive Housing Legislation Should We Have?
  • Restrictive Housing Legislation
  • Constructive Legislation, National, State and Local
  • Conclusion.