HOUSING MONOGRAPH SERIES HOUSING THE CONTINUING PROBLEM TECHNICAL MONOGRAPHS ON HOUSING PREPARED FOR THE INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE The National Resources Planning Board assumes no responsibility for the A NATIONAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE PUBLICATION RELEASED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1940 EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD May 21, 1940. The PRESIDENT, The White House. MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: We have the honor to transmit herewith a report on housing, which was undertaken in accordance with your request. This document summarizes and reproduces a series. of technical monographs on varying aspects of the problem. Except for the Summary, these technical papers have been published at intervals during the last 2 years, and in each case the author assumes full responsibility for the views expressed therein. We hope that these materials will prove helpful to those both in public and in private positions of responsibility who are engaged in supplying adequate housing for our people. Sincerely yours, FREDERIC A. DELANO, Chairman. CHARLES E. MERRIAM. GEORGE F. YANTIS. III The Industrial Committee transmits herewith the fourth and last of the series of monographs on housing prepared, at the request of the President, by numerous collaborators and agencies and assisted by a technical staff. A study in this field was originally undertaken in the spring of 1938 in connection with larger problems of the construction industry. The Industrial Committee recommends the publication of this Summary at this late date because it gives some perspective to the materials already made available in the earlier technical monographs. While technicians will gain little from those parts of this Summary which deal with their specialties, they may find some advantage in a review of other technical fields which are intimately related to material with which they are familiar. The work has been reviewed by the Industrial Committee. The author, of course, assumes responsibility for all statements in the monograph. |