Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Of standards we have heard much in connection with new housing, and, quite naturally, nearly always of material standards—of the number of houses to the acre, the size and the number of rooms, the provision of baths and the like; but of personal standards little, although pers...
Of standards we have heard much in connection with new housing, and, quite naturally, nearly always of material standards—of the number of houses to the acre, the size and the n...
2. Part 2The pecuniary success of the plan has been due to two causes. First, to the absence of middlemen; and, secondly, to great strictness about punctual payment of rent. At this mome...
3. Part 3For, after all, the “home”—the “life”—does not depend on the number of appliances, or even in any deep sense on the sanitary arrangements. I heard a workman once say, with some...
4. Part 4LETTER OF 1879.—I should like, in my letter this year, to note down what it appears to me you are all feeling as to the difference between the charge of a court where the people...
5. Part 5New houses, tenanted as they are mostly by the better class of tenants, may be easily managed; but where tenants dispossessed from old houses are provided for in modern dwelling...