The Provision of Shelter

In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 314, Issue 1, p. 39-45

Abstract

Dramatic demographic changes in the next twenty-five years will re quire housing production up to 2 to 3 million units annually. Maintenance of a high economic level will virtually eliminate poverty. Improved transportation will continue to expand the limits of cities. With these and other trends on the horizon, we can expect greater participation by the federal government in helping to finance the production of private housing, new forms of public housing, and large-scale renewal of deteriorated central areas. Tomorrow's houses will not be of markedly better design, nor will there be any drastic changes in methods of residential construction.