Housing Reform, a Hand-Book for Practical Use in American Cities
The book Housing Reform, a Hand-Book for Practical Use in American Cities was written by author Veiller, Lawrence, 1872-1959 Here you can read free online of Housing Reform, a Hand-Book for Practical Use in American Cities book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Housing Reform, a Hand-Book for Practical Use in American Cities a good or bad book?
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The solution of the question is to be found in the regulation of such enterprises by the state or municipality, as the case may be. It is eminently the right of the state and of each community to see to it that people are not permitted to live under conditions which make for poverty, sickness, disease and death; which pro- duce pauper, criminal and vicious citizens, whom the state is subsequently called upon to support and reform. The state has not only a right but a duty to perform and must sa...y to private individuals: "Thus far you may go, but no farther. You shall not be permitted to build a house in which people ought not to live; you shall not be permitted to so mis-manage your house that it is unhealthful or dangerous for people to live in it." It is along the lines of such regulation that the solution of the housing problem is to be found in every American community. It is by the exercise of the police power of the state that this problem is to be met. The state 85 HOUSING REFORM can most appropriately extend the strong arm of the law toward those weaker members of the community who are unable to protect themselves.
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