Word: slum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City," Laborite Morrison did not become chairman of the Council last week. That duty he delegated to Henry, Baron Sneil of Plumstead, a sober-sided Laborite Peer, bachelor son of a farm laborer. While Lord Snell was putting on the chain of office, Laborite Morrison was doing even better. Slum clearance and new housing projects were prime planks in his election platform. The same day the new council took office he appointed one Lewis Silkin to chairman the Housing Committee. Housing Chairman Silkin promptly an nounced that the ?35,000,000 ($175,000,000) slum clearance scheme...
...Viennese Karl Marxhof, the Labor party of Britain has gained control of London and with a promptness devoid of any sense of the ironic, has outlined a huge new plan for the construction of model apartment houses for the city's working class. That these schemes for slum-clearance and better housing are desirable in themselves is, I think, undeniable. Even the Conservatives recognize this, cautiously. But is the Labor party really cognizant of the implications of this project? Judging from the political naivete it has shown in the past, one would think...
...plaster another burden on the rich and near rich which may impede the further burgeoning of the little buds of recovery which seem to be cropping up in the British Isles? Second, will not the costs of purchase, destruction, and reconstruction force a high rental, higher than slum-dwellers can pay. That this objection is valid seems to be granted by the National government, who in their nascent proposal along these lines are said to have included a decree to prevent overcrowding in neighboring tenements--implying that ht maximum limit of inhabitants per square foot of rooming space will...
When Jacob Riis, the eminent humanitarian, started his campaign for amelioration of the living conditions of the poor, the American slum had already come to be regarded as a social evil of primary importance. Years of agitation and legislation have reaped no material harvest, and the slums are now larger, filthier, and a more serious menace than ever. Recently New York officials were forced to evacuate a few of that city's 4,000 or more firetraps, of which three immediately justified the move by burning to the ground--or rather to the dingy concrete courts which surrounde...
England has been the first to recognize that the Industrial Revolution, creator of urban slums, has at the same time given to civilization the tools for clearing them away. She has inaugurated a public building program embracing all of England and Wales. This move comes as a result of long consideration and represents the only effective solution to the problem. The American government has realized that crime, vice, and disease can be combatted only by concerted action. This logic must and eventually will be extended to wipe out the slum, insidious breeder of these evils. TERTIUS...