Excerpt from Breaking the Building Blockade
Meanwhile the great and spreading areas of blight in the older sections of the cities will have grown Older and more deso late. The heavy cost of supporting these parasitical growths will have continued to rise. The major portion of the working population will enjoy no better housing, relatively, than be fore, their participation in the boom being limited to the chance of moving into homes vacated by those who could afford new ones.
Finally, after the complete boom-and-bust cycle has passed into history, the national housing stock as a whole will be not much better than it is today. The building depression, child of the boom, will once more pile up a cumulative deficit in the national housing inventory, while the quality of that stock continuously declines. At the end of the slump it will be dis covered that we have done no more than build barely enough new houses to accommodate the new families that have been established. The replacement of old and inadequate housing will have been postponed once more.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0332707946
- ISBN 13 9780332707945
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages340