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Nearing completion at Camden, NJ. this week is a Government housing project (for defense shipyard workers) the like of which the U.S. has never seen before. Ground for Camden's 500-family Audubon Village was broken only last February. The buildings were made by a partial prefabrication technique which enabled a crew of ten men to knock together walls and roof in three hours. But it is not only speed which makes Audubon Village unique. It is also the financial plan...
Theory behind the Camden Plan is that the 48% of all U.S. non-farm families which pay $20-$40 a month housing costs can ill afford to risk home-ownership because 1) they have trouble saving enough money for the conventional down payment; 2) they want or have to move two to seven times in the period ordinarily required to pay off a house. But when renting they have to pay somebody else for the privilege of flexibility and protection from loss, thus do not get as good housing as they should...
...ownership and rental. Moreover, it will give residents substantial savings in maintenance costs (through centralized staff and purchases), will protect them against neighborhood deterioration by insuring that no building will fall into disrepair or be replaced by a hot-dog stand. Still more hopeful is the fact that the Camden Plan is not subsidy housing. Although a small subsidy was provided at Audubon Village to make up for construction delays caused by bad weather and a strike, the plan's basic principle is for projects to pay for themselves. Thus, as applied to, it offers a way out from...
JAMES O. LIDE Camden...
...laboratories in Camden announced a new, simpler electron microscope for educational and research laboratories. Like earlier and bigger models, the new instrument uses beams of electrons instead of beams of light for magnification, furnishes enlargements up to 100,000 diameters, but it can be plugged into an ordinary electric outlet...