Abstract

Toward Decent Housing

The article presents information about the book "Slums, Large Scale Housing and Decentralization," vol. 3, by The Presidents's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership. The Committee on Large Scale Housing, offered a new technique. In concise and definite terms it proposed the scrapping of pre-machine, individualistic methods. It would replace them by mass production that will take advantage of economies of machine and factory procedure to produce complete integrated communities. This is to be done on the basis of sound investment rather than speculation. Thus housing will be modernized and costs and rentals lowered. But the committee does not claim that these methods in themselves are sufficient to make modern housing available to all the lower income groups.