The Improvement of Rural Housing

Excerpt: Let us examine the need for improved rural housing. In all areas within the nation some farm families are inadequately housed. In many areas the need for better housing is acute among a large percentages of the farm population. While the existence of rural slums is recognized, many do not realize that more than one fourth of the farm people are housed under what might well be called slum conditions; conditions which are breeding serious weaknesses which we must guard against - ill health, epidemics, delinquency, discontent, and hopelessness. These are conditions which can be corrected in part by improvements in rural housing. A realistic approach to the solution of the housing problem requires action to provide for at least the minimum requirements essential for healthful and respectable living, and for attaining standards consistent with American ideals.