STRAUS ANSWERS CRITICS OF PUBLIC HOUSING
Coleman, Mcalister
Straus Answers Critics Of Public Housing THE SEVEN MYTHS OF HOUSING, by Nathan Straus. Alfred A. Knopf. $2.75. Reviewed by McAlister Coleman THE former Administrator of the United States Housing...
...Which' does not of course mean that they will not be repeated ad nauseum...
...A typical Knopf publication, the book is well illustrated with human interest pictures and charts and is a beautiful mechanical as well as intellectual job...
...One by one the author takes tip the arguments against public, that is, subsidized, low-cost housing under governmental auspices, and shoots them so full of holes that they should never again be able to lift their stupid heads in any civilized community...
...It is a counter-attack that is sorely needed...
...Straus' book comes at a time when public housing is under heavy fire from the real estate gang in and out of Congress...
...Reviewed by McAlister Coleman THE former Administrator of the United States Housing Authority presents in this absorbing book a potent weapon for fighters against the greed of private landlordism...
...Especially in these days when the housing of the millions of lower-bracketed Americans plays such an important part in any...
...Straus and his fellow workers when the showdown on housing comes after the war...
...intelligent postwar planning...
...We hope the book has a wide audience which will back up Mr...
...The wisdom, human sympathy, and practical experience which Nathan Straus has gathered in his years of public service are all in the pages of this definitive work on public housing...
Vol. 8 • April 1944 • No. 15
