The housing of the unskilled wage earner America's next problem, by Edith Elmer Wood.
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New York,
Macmillan
1919.
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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.