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Excerpt from American Housing, Problems and Prospects: The Factual Findings; The Program IN march 1940 The Twentieth Century Fund began a survey of the housing situ ation in the United States. NO authoritative over-all study of the housing prob lem had ever been made. The need for one was great. Furthermore, the Trustees of the Fund were convinced that revival and expansion in this field promised greater employment and general recovery than in any other, at a time when some such major stimulus was urgently called for. They hoped through this investiga tion to reveal the Obstructions to a greater volume of building and more adequate housing and to suggest ways in which these Obstacles might be removed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.