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¹ Housing is the hub of the family’s private world, the nature of housing has a direct effect on the quality of family life. ² It effects the health, time, and energy required to rear a family and care for its members, self-related attitudes, morale, and satisfaction with one’s station in life. ³ It also affects the way in which one family relates to another, to the neighborhood, and to the community.

⁴ Families do not want, expect, or require dwellings that is identical. ⁵ Families with limited means are more interested in securing clean, sale, and reasonably comfortable housing than to find quarters that are especially psychologically stimulating. ⁶ At the same time many families having greater incomes can take basic shelter for granted and proceed to satisfy higher level needs in housing.

⁷ Nevertheless, as a nation we are being more and more concerned with housing that does far more than support physical survival. ⁸ In other words, essentially all American families are upgrading their housing goats and expectations, ⁹ And the dominant housing image remains the single-family house.

¹⁰ Only when families are more articulate in identifying their needs and when builders and public policy become more sensitive to human needs will the nation have a variety of good housing designed, built, and serviced in line with family purposes.