Abstract

Let Us Demand a Housing Program

The present U.S. Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt has let the housing problem fade into insignificance, and in the National Housing Act has gone over to the antithesis of real housing. To clear the way for a new realistic effort to obtain housing it will be necessary first to face squarely the discouragements that have been encountered, the inexcusable delay in Public Welfare Administration housing, the way in which its original personnel was cavalierly dismissed without any effective protest, the lack of sincere interest in housing on the part of powerful government officials, and finally the passage of the National Housing Act, which is in direct contradiction to any sensible, useful housing program, and which cynically appropriated the word housing for a patchwork scheme of single-house renovation, new high-cost loans, and mortgage salvaging.