Housing Division Bulletin, Utgave 3

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Side 84 - I is a review of the evolution of the home and the social and economic forces which have influenced its development.
Side 15 - ... is increased taxes to pay for medical care of diseases bred by the slums; to pay for arrest and detention of criminals who have learned their tricks in the slums ; to maintain fire departments to prevent the spread of fires that break out in slum shacks and tenements. Heavy Taxes Chicago in one year paid out $3,200,000 to provide services for a blighted residential area. This amount included the cost of schools, police and fire protection, public health, courts, prisons, street cleaning, paving,...
Side 6 - ... as the provision that only actual families are accepted in Housing Division projects — no lodgers or unattached individuals are eligible for tenancy ; that the number of people who may live in a dwelling is definitely limited — no more than two persons may occupy one bedroom (children under two years of age are not counted) and only one person may sleep in a living room. The following rules of maximum family size are rigidly observed : No more than 2 persons may occupy a 2-room unit, 3 persons...
Side 87 - REHOUSING URBAN AMERICA. By Henry Wright. New York, Columbia University Press, 1935. 173 pages, illus. Price 17.50. A more accurate title for this book would be "The Architect's Part in Rehousing...
Side 85 - HOUSING PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, by Frank Watson. New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1935.
Side 15 - Chicago area one out of every four boys between the ages of 10 and 17 passed through the juvenile court in one year.
Side 75 - ... appoint a standing committee on housing. This committee can cooperate with other community groups working for better housing. It can be especially effective in keeping workers informed on this activity, pointing out to them the possibility of securing such projects as those described in chapter XIII.
Side 15 - Slums also make it difficult for children to avoid the temptation of stealing. Because...

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