CHAPTER XVI

THE HOME

An increasing population in a diminishing number of centres 209 Our many poorhouses 210 The years taken from the lives of the poor 211 Crowding and overcrowding 212 Tenement statistics 212 Overcrowding on area has increased 213 Not only death and disease but ugliness to be fought 215 Where further building should be prevented 217 The housing question as a land question and as a capital question 218 The community should be landlord 218 The taxation of land on its selling value would assist in municipalizing area 219 The small area needed to rehouse our city populations 220 The municipality must plan its extensions in advance 221 Some examples from Germany 222 An example in the United Kingdom 223 How land and capital enter into the housing problem 229 National housing loans needed 231