Abstract
This chapter begins with a review of housing accommodations as a bundle of attributes (Section 2), and proceeds to a discussion of arguments from basic rights and welfare considerations that have been used to try to improve the North American housing delivery system (3). Household numbers and sizes are presented in the next section (4), with an examination of crowding, plumbing deficiencies and homeownership. Section 5 contains statistics on personal expenditures on and satisfaction obtained from housing. In Section 6 I consider new housing units, with special reference to single family detached dwellings and the achievements of estimated national requirements. That is followed by a review of numbers of and dollar losses from building fires (7). In the final section (8) I summarize the chapter and combine its results with all previous chapters.
“Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.”
Francis Bacon
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J. Pynoos, R. Schafer, and C. W. Hartman, ‘Economics’, Housing Urban America, (ed. by J. Pynoos, R. Schafer, and C. W. Hartman) (Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., 1973), p. 203.
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C. A. Sims, ‘Efficiency in the Construction Industry’, Housing Urban America, (ed. by J. Pynoos, R. Schafer, and C. W. Hartman) (Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., 1973), pp. 329–339.
Ibid., p. 332; D. Nelkin, The Politics of Housing Innovation: The Fate of the Civilian Industrial Technology Program (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1971), pp. 6–9,12–13, 56–59.
A. C. Michalos, ‘Satisfaction and Happiness’, Social Indicators Research (1980), 385–422.
Statistics Canada, (42–217) Truck Body and Trailer Manufacturers 1974 (Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services, 1975), p. 16, Table 7; U.S. Department of Commerce, Statistical Abstract of the United States 1978 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978), p. 788, Table 1370.
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Michalos, A.C. (1981). Housing. In: Environment, Transportation, and Housing. North American Social Report, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8498-1_3
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