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The spirit in which the Regional Plan approached the complicated problem of housing in the New York Region is well expressed in the words of President Hoover, who, in the course of his address at the Conference on Child Welfare in Washington on November 19, 1930, said:
“Delinquency increases with congestion. Overcrowding produces disease and contagion. The child’s natural play place is taken from him. His mind is stunted by the lack of imaginative surroundings and lack of contact with the fields, streams, trees and birds. Home life becomes more difficult. Cheerless homes produce morbid minds.”
The housing problem is essentially social, but it cannot be solved without taking into consideration the economic factors with which it is inseparably associated. With this thought in mind the studies have been pursued exhaustively and are now presented as Monograph Two in Volume VI of the Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs. Excerpts from the Monograph, in sequence, are given below, affording an easy comprehension of the outstanding features of the studies.
