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How industry transforms a city

Industry creates problems in housing

The Bayonne Housing Corporation organized

Housing based on business principles

The social responsibility

The first group of homes

CHAPTER I

Economics of Industrial Housing

The effect of the new housing architecture

The contrast of slums

The factors of high cost

The place of housing in American history

Weaknesses in housing production

The factor of land value

Factor of public improvements

Factor of land utilization

​ Construction costs

Cost of house furnishings

Finance is the heaviest cost

The effect of interest rates on rentals

Mechanical equipment and woman's labor

Legal and structural requirements

Cost of operating a home

The wage-earner's income

The wreck of the housing industry

The consequence of failure: slums

Deterioration in architecture

The counsel of failure

Success found at Bayonne

CHAPTER II

The Garden Apartment

​ The co-operation of labor

Construction and finish

Mechanical equipment

The advance in planning

Comparison with one-family and row housing types

Economy of operation

A new type of management

Rentals in the Bayonne housing

Architectural merits—the plan

The garden environment

The playground

CHAPTER III

The Bayonne Housing Corporation