COMMUNITY CONCERN IN BETTER HOUSING
Community Concern in Better Housing HOUSING REFORM applies not only to tenements but to the single-family dwelling also, according to John Ihlder, field secretary of the National Housing...
...When public health authorities, anti-tuberculosis associations, morals efficiency commissions, fire departments, life and fire insurance companies, and a score of other agencies, public, semi-public and private, find that their efforts to secure any substantial improvement lead inevitably to the dwellings of the people, then the providing of those dwellings ceases to be a purely private affair and becomes in larger degree a community affair...
...In New York City, in New Jersey, in Columbus, in Duluth—wherever an advance in housing . legislation has been made, there has been this opposition based on the fear that it would check building...
...So our cities are coming to understand that upon them rests the responsibility of seeing that every dwelling provides at least a minimum of sanitation, light, air, privacy and safety from fire...
...And in every case experience has shown that instead it stimulated building...
...And the new buildings of higher typo reduced those other and expensive social problems which have their root in unwholesome dwellings...
...The new conception of what a city dwelling should be required to provide for its inhabitants runs counter to some established customs...
...Writing In The Survey, he says: "We have learned that bad housing may be found not only in the single-family shacks, but even in what is styled a single-family residence...
...Just as it was found impossible to draw a valid distinction between an 'apartment house' and a 'tenement house,' so is it impossible to draw one between shack and residence...
...Community Concern in Better Housing HOUSING REFORM applies not only to tenements but to the single-family dwelling also, according to John Ihlder, field secretary of the National Housing Association...
Vol. 6 • November 1914 • No. 45
