An Inquiry into the Normative Patterns by Which Substandard Housing Exists and is Maintained in Cleveland,Ohio

Abstract

“Ten years ago this country made putting a man on the moon by 1970 a national goal, and by 1970 an American astronaut landed on the moon. With the 1949 Housing Act, the Federal Government established a national goal of providing “a decent home, a suitable living environment for every American family,” but it made no commitment to that goal. Every day that we wait the problem of urban housing gets bigger, and every day it becomes more expensive to correct Let us turn our attention now from scientific achievement to the need for achievement of a different kind. For if one thing can be said of the housing problem, it is that it will be harder to solve than it was to put a man on the moon.” (Romney, Secretary, H.U.D., 7-21-69)