Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door to his court remained wide open. Since Louis insisted that his noblemen live there, housing was a nightmare. With 10.000 people living in the chateau at Versailles, it was as crowded as a slum. The bearer of many a celebrated name had to be content with a dismal attic room, though it seemed to be worth it to bask in the rays of the Sun King: the nobleman of the day counted himself lucky if he could become the official custodian of the royal chamber...
...case of public housing, said Slusser, the plateau of teamwork can be reached through a city's slum section, which produces an everlasting succession of headaches but little revenue for private real-estate men. "My guess is that nobody in this audience is handling slum homes. You want customers-not the nickels and dimes wrung out of human misery...
...private industry in this country has never been able to provide housing for low income groups at a profit. With the returns from slum clearance and welfare building so unsure, private enterprise tends to concentrate on more lucrative upper and middle class construction. The burdens of building for the low income groups falls to the cities, many of which are clearly incapable of handling the necessary projects. And so, fifteen million American families go inadequately housed, while more dwellings deteriorate each year...
...surface, delinquency in "good" families (where slum conditions and juvenile gangs are not a factor) seems hard to explain. But where the two psychiatrists were able to study both child and parents, they reported, the child's "defect" was always traceable to one parent or both...
...well-off industrial countries. Their medical science, shared with the best of motives, has cut death rates all over the world. Birth rates in the backward areas have not fallen much. Unless they fall much faster, he says, most of the world will become a permanent and hopeless slum...