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Excerpt from Land, Materials, and Labor Costs: A Technical Monograph on Housing Prepared for the Industrial Committee of the National Resources Committee The general business depression which dominated American life following the boom years of 1926 - 29 was characterized by a cessation Of residential building activities along with the decline of other business. Attempts were made from 1931 on to produce more healthy conditions, so that a revival might come about. Private industry alone, Government alone, and Govern ment and industry together - all have attempted to raise the volume of home construction. All these efforts have resulted in progress but still fall far short of actually producing the number Of new houses needed. The National Resources Committee has been thrown in contact with these problems from time to time in connection with various studies.1 During 1936 - 37 the Committee felt the necessity for securing more detailed information concerning a number of phases of the prob lems closely related to housing. Technicians in the various branches of the Government were asked to present monographs touching these particular prob lems. Naturally the men who prepared these docu ments drew on their own experience and presented their personal views which in no way represent the opinions of the agencies with which they are connected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.