Download or read book An A B C of Housing Classic Reprint written by Ca; Commission of Immigration a Housing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An A-B-C of Housing This pamphlet is intended to serve as a primer on housing. It is in no way a technical treatise on this complex subject, nor is it proposed as an outline for a housing ordinance. The Commission publishes this material for the general public in the h0pe that many people may become interested in the housing question. A movement for better housing conditions in any community can not succeed unless it has the intelligent approval of the majority of citizens. Moreover, suggestions are made which will enable an industrious few to survey and study the general housing evils and problems peculiar to any one community. The Commission invites correspondence con cerning the subject matter of this pamphlet and, on request, Will send a detailed plan of directions for making a complete housing survey of a city or town. Whenever advisable the Commission will send, Without cost to a community, a housing expert to conduct such surveys. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Evicted written by Matthew Desmond and published by Crown. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama • The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • The Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • The New Yorker • Bloomberg • Esquire • BuzzFeed • Fortune • San Francisco Chronicle • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Politico • The Week • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Booklist • Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE “Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth “Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones “Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Dr Seuss s ABC written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aunt Annie's Alligator to Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz, this sturdy board book version of Dr. Seuss's ABC is now available in a bigger trim size. With Dr. Seuss as your guide, learning the alphabet is as fun and as funny as the feather on a Fiffer-feffer-feff!
Download or read book Introduction to Housing written by Edith Elmer Wood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introduction to Housing: Facts and Principles D. State court decisions concerning slum clearance and low-rent housing by local housing authorities. E. Housing projects built by the Housing Division of the pwa, now leased or operated by the usha. F. United States Housing Authority-assisted projects as of Nov. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Housing and the Housing Problem Classic Reprint written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Housing and the Housing Problem The nation-wide movement for housing reform has been stimulated by the overwhelming evidence that has come to light within recent years and which has left no doubt in the minds of statesmen, social workers, and the public as to the existence of a serious and increasingly difficult housing problem. The evidence gathered has been so emphatically based upon the evils of the worst sanitary conditions that all efforts in the direction of reform have been centered upon the task of fixing a minimum standard for the ten or twelve per cent of the population affected. The task of accomplishing the meager results that we have to our credit, after almost half a century of tireless and socially costly effort, has been so great that we have lost sight of the broader question, namely, the establishment of financial and legal conditions that will make possible a normal development and maintenance of housing standards consistent with the progress of the most progressive of nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Housing Handbook Classic Reprint written by W. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Housing Handbook The following pages have been written in the hope that they may to some extent meet the requirements of that increasing body of earnest men and women who want to know what they can do to promote the better housing of the working classes. The experience of the past twelve years, spent in promoting or assisting in the promotion of a number of housing schemes in various parts of the country, has convinced the writer of the need for some such convenient collection of facts and figures dealing with the practical side of the housing question as that which it has been attempted to embody in this book. It has not been an easy matter to get reliable particulars in every case, but in the main the substantial facts and figures have either been abstracted from official returns or supplied by the kindness of the officers of the various bodies concerned. It is impossible that there should be no inaccuracies, but it is believed they will not be found of such a nature or extent as to modify in any material degree the various conclusions arrived at. Corrections from any source whatever will be gratefully welcomed, and an endeavour will also be made from time to time to keep the various returns and statements up-to-date, so far as they have any bearing on the actual practical work of housing. In nearly every case the writer has had the advantage of personally inspecting the various dwellings described, and in many instances, especially in connection with recent work under Part III, has been consulted by the various authorities in the preparation of the schemes. The King and the Housing of the Working Classes. Most of the work described has been done under the Public Health and Housing Acts, which, to a great extent, took their present form as an outcome of the Royal Commission, appointed on March 4th, 1884, to enquire into the Housing of the Working Classes in the United Kingdom. His Majesty King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) was a sympathetic and keenly interested member of this Commission, the meetings of which he regularly and constantly attended. Since that time his earnestness in the cause of housing reform has been repeatedly manifested, and much as he has laboured to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of broken health and disease by encouraging the provision and support of hospital accommodation everywhere, he has been equally anxious to assist measures for the prevention of such sickness and disease by giving his royal countenance to the efforts of the various municipalities in the direction of providing more and better dwellings for the masses of the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Housing Classic Reprint written by W. P. Atkinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Housing America. In meeting the tremendous task of providing better housing for our pe0p1e, the home building industry has a record of remarkable accomplishment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The New Day in Housing Classic Reprint written by Louis H. Pink and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Day in Housing What could be of more vital concern to all public spirited citizens than the subject of decent, adequate housing? Chil dren are still being brought up in dark, ill-ventilated, over crowded, unsafe tenement houses and these structures are to be found not only in New York City but in many of the cities and small communities as well. The social ills and moral dangers consequent upon our neglect of housing have been ably presented by the courts dealing with juvenile offenders, by church, social and civic bodies of every kind. Our govern ment has been and will continue to be compelled to pay in the impaired vitality and health of a large part of its people for the failure in coming to grips with this situation on a large scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Housing the Masses Classic Reprint written by Carol Aronovici and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Housing the Masses This book was conceived and written largely as a result of a long experience in teaching both housing and community planning In a variety of educational institutions. I have felt that most discussions on these subjects have been emphasizing the immediate objectives of these two important phases of individual and communal living, while the forces which have stood in the way of long-range creative effort have been neglected or overlooked in the interest of expediency. It is with the long range aspects of housing that this book is concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Fight for Better Homes Classic Reprint written by U. S. National Housing Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fight for Better Homes Where one city has been halted by seemingly insuperable obstacles or has gone astray in its endeavors, another has succeeded. Where many cities are just at the beginning of their task, others have already made considerable progress, and so are in a position to point out dangers and pitfalls. Two years ago scarcely half a dozen cities in America realized that they had a housing problem. To-day more than one hundred cities have begun to see that they are not cities of homes so long as they contain districts where people are huddled together in houses which, while they may protect from the weather, shut out light and air and afford no sanitary conditions. Even those most familiar with bous ing conditions in our cities and townshave been astonished as the work develops to find not only how bad are the conditions under which we are trying to raise American citizens and efficient workers, but also how uni versal are these bad conditions. To know that bad housing is an evil of far-reaching effects, to be convinced that active measures for the improve ment of housing conditions should at once be undertaken, is, however, only the beginning of a vitally important and very difficult task. The ends to be aimed at, the policy to be pursued, the means to be used, are not always clear. Mistakes in these may not only result in wasted years of effort, but what is of far more consequence, may result in discrediting the whole move ment or in giving a community wrong and unfit standards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Model Housing Law Classic Reprint written by Lawrence Veiller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Model Housing Law The coming into almost universal use of the automobile has brought with it very difficult problems radically affecting property subdivision and building construction. It has brought many of the difficulties that have been encountered in attempting to apply the Model Housing Law in different states and cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Practical Housing Classic Reprint written by John Sutton Nettlefold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Housing The phrase is often misused - nevertheless, I am going without fear to say that I think it an honour to comply with your invitation to write a brief preface to this book. Ever since those days when you showed me in Birmingham the evidences of the work of the committee of which you were the chairman I had looked forward to the publication of Practical Housing, for I knew that if you could set forth the methods which you have there pursued, the feet of many willing and ardent reformers would be set upon an ordered and well defined track. I for one would gladly traverse many dusty miles to achieve the ends to which you aspire; but there is no dust in the pleasant paths of this volume, which I read at a single sitting with absorbed interest and with general and cordial agreement. In the problems of social reform presented by an old and complex civilisation such as ours we are often confronted by the pathetic spectacle of men so inflamed by the contemplation of evil and suffering that in their reforms they choose speed and violence in preference to patient persuasion. The strong hand is of course here and there necessary and must always be known to be in reserve. But good constructive workers in fields strewn with the debris of past mistakes must be cautious; must not enlist on the side of ancient abuses the sentiment of Justice which revolts against the sacrifice of the individual for those general errors for which the community is responsible, and must bear steadily in mind that impatience of financial burthen especially in the form of rates which, as we must all recognise, is a primary and powerful political motive among our people. The student of your book will find illustrations of vour firm grasp of these truths in your preference of the slower and far cheaper methods of Part II. Of the Housing Act of 1890 (recently confirmed by a valuable and weighty report of the Mansion House Council, and in the general attitude you advocate as becoming in a public authority towards property owners; by your suggestion of careful and patient explanation of the precise improvements which owners are compellable to make, their specification and cost; by yourpleas for some reasonable elasticity in respect of bye-laws, and for time for making improvements so necessary in this sphere of business, and by your recognition of the value of conference and co-operation as distinguished from official decrees made without consultation and enforced without consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Industrial Colonies and Village Settlements for the Consumptive Classic Reprint written by German Woodhead and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Industrial Colonies and Village Settlements for the Consumptive Symonds, and we together examined the patients, sampled the climate and other conditions, and argued with Unger and Ruedi. Then for the second time came Hope; more solid Hope. Given a fairly early case, and three years, and recovery was in the offing. And so we went on cheerfully with Davos. But Davos was not for every one; nor was every case an early 'one. Then came the discovery that lower altitudes would do if certain conditions were obtained; and so arose the great sanatorium movement. But slowly we found that patients could not spend their lives in sanatoriums; and one day on making my way up to one of them in England, I met on the way patient after patient, slouching along, bored to death with themselves and with each other; and even worse in morale than in body. Better discipline and better notions of thera peutics mended some of that; still I could not forget those listless saunterers, and it became evident to some of us, however unwillingly, that Hope was drooping again. The sanatorium was doing a great educative work no doubt; but at the end of its four or six months - what then? To send the patient away with recommendations about light jobs, and a regime, was almost a mockery or quite. What about the wage, and the family to be supported? The next lesson was brought home to me by a visit with other commissioners to certain cities, concerning some such problems. Before me now I see a gaunt hollow-eyed man, coughing, and leaning against the wall as he tried to talk to us, saying that his mates when he came out of the sanatorium - good fellows as they were - had bought him a milk that he might creep round, and earn a bit. The brave wife, shawl on head and mill apron on, had just come from the factory, and apologised for the dirty house - as well she might. The poor thing was working all day at the factory to keep the wolf from the door. All being dragged down together into the pit! What is the value of a good house, or a clean house, if no wages! What is there for the children? And what is to stop the infection! Who then would have the imagination, the initiative, the business capacity, to lift this burden, like lifting a world? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Handbook to the Housing and Town Planning Act 1909 Classic Reprint written by W. Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook to the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909 The issue of this volume has been delayed in the hope that the Town Planning Regulations and Provisions Of the Local Government Board might be added, but up to the time of going to press they have not made their appearance SO they will form the subject of a small supplement uniform in style and size with the present pages. The A B C of the Housing and Town Planning Act which precedes the text of the Act itself will be found convenient for purposes of reference, and the table of previous Acts of Parliament at the end of the book will be useful for bringing up-to-date the text of Acts contained in the two previous volumes. As for the Act itself, it will be well for housing reformers not to expect too much from it in its present form. Many clauses, which on the face of things appear to give very valuable powers, were robbed Of much of their effectiveness after passing the committee stage of the House Of Commons. In practice they will be sadly lacking in effectiveness. The National Housing Reform Council, backed by special representative Conferences of the Local Authorities, will strive in the future as in the past to give the fullest possible encouragement to the use of these powers. They will, however, also work strenuously for such amendments at an early date as will make it possible, first, to bring home to the public the real nature and extent of existing housing evils, and in the next place to secure for municipalities not only full powers for dealing with these evils, but also such facilities in respect Of cheap land, cheap money, and reduced burdens on dwelling houses as will enable the very poor to be housed in a cheaper and more satisfactory manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book New Homes for Old written by William V. Reed and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Homes for Old: Public Housing in Europe and America Ison the city's rim, whole neighborhoods nearer the city's center were allowed to decay. These central blighted areas became the enforced homes of the poorest workers of all. With rising land prices went increased building costs. For although the new sanitary and building construction codes of the latter half of the century represented some progress, they did make building a more expensive business. As the century wore on, interest rates on borrowed capital went up too. All these added costs were passed on to the tenant in the form of higher rents. But wages did not Climb nearly as fast as the rents. Consequently more and more people were forced to crowd into the poorest kind of housing - in other words, the Slums. As we have seen, this gap between the Income of lar numbers of people and prevailing rentals is the heart of t housing problem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Housing for the United States After the War Classic Reprint written by National Association of Housi Officials and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Housing for the United States After the War To meet these needs and bring the housing supply of the nation up to a satisfactory standard within a period of about fifteen years after the war, private enterprise and public housing together will have to produce an average of from one to one and one-half million dwelling units a year. This period may be lengthened by the time that it will take for the house building industry to reach maximum capacity following the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Classic Modern Homes of the Thirties written by James Ford and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splendid pictorial record of architectural style strongly influenced by Bauhaus movement. Over 300 illustrations show interiors, exteriors. Details on construction, site, cost, more.
