ONE of the latest evidences of growing American civilization is the interest manifested in housing reform. Stimulated largely by the work of the New York Tenement House Commission of 1901, many cities ...

Herbert Hoover, raised in the country, is a champion of the small home owner. His committees and conferences and finally the Home Loan Bank system have all been designed to preserve the independence ...

Some crises never seem to change, and in New York, it’s our housing crisis. For those of low income, there simply isn’t enough that’s affordable. We declared a housing emergency after World War II — ...

More than 5,000 residents of the lower East Side, nearly all Jewish, gathered yesterday afternoon in Hamilton Fish Park on East Houston street to hear a group of speakers, including Mayor La-Guardia ...

I STOOD at Seven Dials and heard the policeman’s account of what it used to be. Seven Dials is no more like the slum of old than is the Five Points today. The conscience of London wrought upon the one ...