Broad Economic Phases of the Housing Problem

It is generally recognized in the City of New York, and it is not different. in most cities of the United States, that the poorest paid laborers must live in second-class houses; that it is impossible from an economic point of view under existing conditions to build houses for those persons who receive the lowest wage scale. It is not a particularly bad thing to live in a second-class house; the speaker has never lived in any other. In New York, particularly in the Borough of Manhattan, it is not desirable to live in a second-class tenement house, but many of the single-family houses, built 25 to 40 years ago, are better than the single-family houses built to-day.