Housing For The Poor

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" This study will investigate housing for the poor. Specifically, the areas to be covered will include the effects of slum housing on the residents, poor health, stress, child-rearing problems, and the poverty cycle in general as it relates to housing for the poor. The study will also deal with possible solutions to these problems.
Martin Mayer, in The Builders, argues that the origins of slum housing in the United States are related to the failure of residents on a massive scale to keep houses attractive "for subsequent purchasers and the (failure) to maintain the apartment house for new tenants . . . " (Mayer 8). When these systems of maintenance fail, then, "usually because the income levels of the newcomers were insufficient to maintain the property, . . . we get the modern slum, an underpopulated wasteland rather than the(...)"

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