Abstract

What Are Our Goals? III. Fifteen Million Homes

To assure every American family a decent home in a healthful community the best available estimates agree that government must build approximately 1500000 houses a year for at least ten years. There is only a relatively slight spread between one estimate and another. If the U.S. Congress would act now to carry out plans already drawn, a great stride would be taken toward the ten-year objective. Between 1932 and 1947 it has passed no fewer than sixty-eight bills of original or amendatory nature dealing in some fashion with the housing problem. In 1945 it considered a bill intended to produce housing over a ten-year period. The Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill, now awaiting action by the House, would establish a national housing policy.