Progressive_Era

Progressive Era Housing in general, living accommodations available for the inhabitants of a community. Throughout the 19th century, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, housing as a problem worsened as urban populations expanded. The crowding of cities and factory towns by workers led not only to severe housing shortages but also to the deterioration of existing housing and the growth of slums. The problem was aggravated by the erection of substandard housing for workers and by speculators seeking high profits. The housing question is the most fundamental of social problems relating to environment. The dictum of the late Cardinal Manning, "Domestic life creates a nation," is absolutely sound. The corollary is also true: the lack of domestic life will unmake a nation. The home is the character unit of society; and, where there is little or no opportunity for the free play of influences which make for health, happiness, and virtue, we must expect social degeneration and decay. Great cities are the danger points of modern civilization, and any community which leaves to a large part of its inhabitants inadequate facilities for the true development of domestic life must fight deteriorating forces at tremendous cost. The relation between humanity and its housing, environment, life, relation, question, must, domestic, york, yards, workers, while, urban, true, together, tenement, sources, society, social, saloons, research, problems, problem, people, old, new, nation, low, long, living, large, lack, inhabitants, influences, home, great