The Housing Book

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Excerpt from The Housing Book: Containing Photographic Reproductions, With Floor Plans of Workingmen's Homes, One and Two Family Houses of Frame, Brick, Stucco and Concrete Construction, Also Four, Six and Nine Family ApartmentsThe coming of the war brought a sudden realization of faulty housing conditions and forced upon the manufacturing companies and owners of tenement property the conviction that the need of houses and better houses must be met and met quickly. The U. S. Govern ment started a Housing Corporation, and private firms in many localities immediately began to build, not only houses but towns. Villages, complete in every requirement, sprang up as if by magic on land that but lately was meadow or field and are the product of quick, intensified work planned to meet the present need.As soon as a corporation or housing company takes a parcel of land to be developed, surveyors and engineers map out the streets and the architect and builder follow with plans for various types of houses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.