We have a much vaunted tradition of individual initiative ‘self-suficiency’, above all in housing matters. Can this force be transformed into effective group initiative, the only form of action which can supplant the environment of the nineteenth ntury with really modern houses and workable cities? Ther are a few signs of promise. ……………………………..…… There was a time - and it was not so long ago - when the vast majority of Americans had one active ideal in common whatever the differences in their condition: to own a house and a lot. Many of them achieved it( particularly, as a matter of
fact, in the Philadelphia region). Today most of them are being gradually forced to realize what a mockery that great symbol of security and progress and respectability has become. Sooner or later. all of them must face it. If only a small part of the vast energy whChich was rected toward individual home-ownership were now organized to demand a realistic program of modern housing- the best dwellings that planners can plan and that labor and materials can build (and we have an abundance of all three)then there would be an American housing movement indeed.
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