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...Riverside Tenants Council, claiming that Harvard had unfairly taken possession of the land, had earlier demanded that Harvard construct low-cost housing on the site. At that time Harvard intended to use it for faculty housing...
Underemployed Housing is created by the obsolescence of Worker Housing, supplemented by Low-Cost Housing Programs if such exist. It is assumed to have a 50 year life-span, after which it becomes unfit for human habitation or is destroyed to make way for new constructions...
...With this steady flow of deteriorated housing entering the Underemployed Housing market, the availability and-or cost of the Underemployed Housing goes down. Consequently, the city becomes more attractive to the Underemployed, relatively speaking, than to Managers or Labor. Underemployed living outside of the city notice the platitude of low-cost housing in the stagnating city, and migrate there. This migration continues until the rent and-or availability of Underemployed Housing is brought roughly into equilibrium with that of surrounding areas, or other aspects of city life become so unattractive that they keep prospective immigrants home...
...final, and most damaging program Forrester looks at is the Low-Cost Housing Program. Assumed to be funded by a larger governmental body, the computer model's housing program does not effect the tx rate for the city but does provide jobs for Labor and Underemployed through construction. The program is designed to build housing for five per cent of the Underemployed per year, but because of the counteractive effects of land shortages and labor shortages (labor rapidly leaves the city), it averages only 2.5 per cent per year. Even this rate of construction, though, proves very harmful...
...with problems like these, the Florence Crittenton homes, as well as other social agencies, are beginning to sponsor weekly group meetings where mothers can talk out their worries and look for solutions. Agencies also try to help with the economic troubles that plague nearly every unmarried mother: several provide low-cost day-care centers, and others run used-clothing and equipment exchanges. Some unwed mothers cut costs by joining forces with others to rent apartments and share baby-sitting chores. Others manage to get by alone...