“Let no one imagine that because he lives in a modern home with all conveniences, clean surroundings and a garden, that he has no responsibility for how others live.” - Editorial in response to the report of the St. John’s Housing Commission in the Daily News, 1943
“This report and all the effort that has gone into the drafting of it can be an historic document or a waste of time. If it should prove to be the latter we shall condemn ourselves as a selfish, apathetic community deserving of all the ills that may befall us”
Love to be reminded of the radical beginnings of the social housing movement in SJ.
“we can no longer tell the slum-dweller to wait until he can, if he ever can, buy himself out of the slums; he must be helped to get out of them, and they must be abolished by public action.”
“we can no longer tell the slum-dweller to wait until he can, if he ever can, buy himself out of the slums; he must be helped to get out of them, and they must be abolished by public action.”
Anyway. Even in 1943 the answer was to build more housing that makes most efficient use of land and is serviceable by public transportation.
Source:
journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/nfld…
Source:
journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/nfld…
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