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Government and Housing
Abrams, Charles | October 21, 1944 issue

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The housing problem is more than houses, more than the slum, more than the problem of home ownership. It embraces five main elements. The first is the predicament facing low income families who are forced to live in slums and who, unless a housing program is planned now, will continue to inhabit buildings unfit for human beings. A second element is the unsound home-ownership structure. Tenancy has increased sharply and only 40% of the American families now own homes. The other sixty percent cannot be forced into owning homes by lending them 90% of cost; they must be able to pay the carrying charges, and for the majority of the population, the cost of maintaining the home is uneconomic.

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HOME ownership; SLUMS; FAMILY; HOUSING -- Prices; INCOME; UNITED States
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