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Jan 1922
Broad Economic Phases of the Housing Problem
Author: Lawson PurdyAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 85, Issue 1
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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.
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Published in print: Jan 1922
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Lawson Purdy
Secy. and Gen. Director, The Charity Organization Soc., New York City.
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