Modern Housing for America
Subtitle: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780226702230
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Central government policies; Housing; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; History: American; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - U.S. Government; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Public Policy - General; Political Science / Public Policy; 20th century; History; Housing policy; New Deal, 1933-1939; United States
First sentence: Walter Stabler, who headed the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's urban mortgage department, told a special Senate committee in 1920 that "the housing question" constituted the most serious problem "that this country has ever seen" and warned that it was "growing worse steadily."