every generation is and must be confident to all the purposes which it's ok gins require it is the living and not the dead that ought to be accommodated this city and of the people who live in eight million is what it adds up to eight million people who work week in sleep who live in this city together neighbor it is the people who make a city what it is and in another sense it is the city that makes the people at it this way people come together for warmth all for safety comfort all gain people come together and the city begins to happen houses go up streets go down bridges span the rivers tunnels laced the earth and the city grows people keep on coming in the search for friendship fun a love for learning city's average and the general death rate is one third higher than the death rate of all new york for reasons like this could i see the apartment no but no no children the city aware of its responsibility to the living build a house a lot of houses houses which ask no questions about a man's race or color or creed this is the first house the city built nineteen thirty five the first house built by any city in the united states two hundred fifty eight families moved in paid twenty five dollars a month for four ohms including gas and li including three nineteen thirty nine more housing like this red hook to fight the evictions the city stepped into the picture with control as administered by the temporary city housing rent commission soon the city's building program was fully underway once  this is the way the city builds a house plans go from the city housing authority to the board of us the budget director checks the city housing authority budget and against the master plan of the city the city planning commission check for sanitation transportation schools checks and approves the site the old comes down in one day the city has had as many as thirty thousand applicants for one housing project the forms are handed out and said mayor the city housing authority asked questions citizen resident certain income married children present living conditions and the name becomes a number number with a priority in this interviewing room of the city housing authority each applicant chosen impartially by a number tells his own story in his own way behind each story lies the same set of facts no heat no room to raise a family rents too high a sixth floor walkup the answer an apartment in the city housing project a place to live with space designed li three thousand children live here here there is room for growing boys and happy baby father to work and son to school all the children of mothers who have to work there is a nursery all day care after school the older children have a place to play in safety in the evening people come together in friendship and in common  here in the city's houses people come together to build a living community far as tom paine said it is the living and not the dead that are to be forty nine the figure is forty thousand that was the last twenty two months the city has started forty two housing projects one per month the new projects mean health and happiness since nineteen parties text when i became a we have bells low cost housing to take the place