A study in housing for a low-income group

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1949

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute

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This thesis has four main objectives which are as follows

  1. To make a detailed study of the environment of a selected low-income group of families on a comparative basis with low-income families of similar characteristics.
  2. To relate the knowledge acquired from this study to the analysis and planning of a housing project.
  3. To design dwellings for this project with a maximum of livability, structural soundness, pleasing aesthetic quality, and economy.
  4. To investigate the financing of this housing project with several types of ownership in order to ascertain their feasibility, and to determine which offers the greater advantage to the group, to be housed.

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