Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different from that of most other big U.S. cities. But Los Angeles was not considering it coldly. Last week virtually every landlord was certain his constitutional rights were being ground under the heel of a psychopathic bureaucracy, and countless tenants were convinced that they were soon to be 1) homeless, 2) victims of the vastest, most blackhearted swindle in the regrettable history of man. So the atmosphere was not unlike that around the lifeboats two minutes before the Titanic went down...
...More than 20,000,000 desperate and homeless people are now milling east and west, north and south, across the Continent. . . . In all things that it takes to keep body and soul together . . . Poland is severely lacking; 800,000 are now living in holes in the ground and dugouts...
This aftermath of war had its yeasty effect upon the minds of the Filipino people; unrest and political dissension multiplied in the hot & humid atmosphere of peace. The homeless, poverty-stricken masses had watched cynically as members of the Philippines Congress (many of whom had kept their jobs under the Japanese) voted themselves full salaries for the last three years. The wartime bitter ness over collaboration still licked and smoked through all ranks of Filipino society...
Allied bombers destroyed or badly damaged 3,600,000 German dwelling units, made 7,500,000 people homeless, killed some 300,000 and wounded 780,000. The price the Allies paid: 79,265 U.S. and 79,281 British airmen dead; more than 18,000 U.S. and 22,000 British planes destroyed...
...must have five million new ones in the next decade. He is requisitioning land for building, said Bevan, and will worry about payments to landowners later. Other points: it will be low-cost housing; local authorities will erect it; materials will be scheduled just like bomber parts; the homeless will be billeted in other people's spare rooms as long as necessary. And by 1950 the problem should be licked. Britons hoped that Bevan would get along with it faster than he has to date...