Author

Publication

1996 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

68,250 words, Guess

Page Count

273 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivemodernhousingfor00radf
  • ISBN-100226702227
  • ISBN-100226702235
  • ISBN-139780226702223
  • ISBN-139780226702230
and 3 more
  • Goodreads4530518', '1542392
  • Library of Congress Control Number96021155
  • Open LibraryOL983452M

Classifications

  • DDC363.5/8/0973
  • LCCHD7293 .R28 1996

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."

Subjects

Topics

HistoryHousingHousing policyNew Deal, 1933-1939Housing policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Places

Times

Series Statement

  • Historical studies of urban America

Links

Other Editions

  • Modern housing for America: policy struggles in the New Deal eraUniversity of Chicago Press1996-01-01

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