Abstract

Haunted Housing

A blind veteran in New York writes that he cannot get an apartment for his mother and his seeing-eye dog. Another soldier returned from overseas finds the four members of his family compelled to live in four different counties. The mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, reports that "as many as sixteen to twenty persons are living in one or two rooms." Housing has been wrongly described as a war casualty. Many other factors, some predating the war by years, have contributed to the present crisis, an acute housing shortage existed before the war; families have increased by 3,000,000 since 1940 and some 1,400,000 service shall have married. There is no organized pro-housing lobby and if the real-estate interests' multi-million-dollar machine prevails, explosions will occur.