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Bringing Shelter Up to Date: II. Unchaining House from Land
Haskell, Douglas | May 23, 1934 issue

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Many U.S. families move simply because they have outgrown or outclassed their dwellings. They cannot leave the old house without also changing locations. In this respect houses differ from most other commodities, which can be exchanged without abandoning the old ones on the spot. This "difference" of houses is a direct cause of many vast areas of urban "blight," where houses left behind are weirdly used after the previous owners have moved away. If the house were on wheels it would be the house that moved away when it became inadequate, not the family.

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MOBILE homes; URBAN policy; MOBILE home living; DWELLINGS; FAMILIES; UNITED States
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