Main entry:

Wood, Edith Elmer, 1871-1945.

Title & Author:

The housing of the unskilled wage earner : America's next problem ...

Publication:

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1919.

Description:

7 preliminary leaves, 321 pages ; 21 cm.

Series:

American social progress series

Notes:
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.
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Subject:

Housing United States.
Working class Dwellings United States.
Travailleurs Habitations États-Unis.
Working class Dwellings.
Housing.
United States.

Added entries:

American social progress series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 2736
Call No.: PO6806; ID:87-B11610
Status: Available