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Show ARE FABRICATED HOUSES COMING? Speaking of the housing problem, Clyde L. Rogers, in the Annalist, calls attention to the fact that the average cost of a one-family house increased from $2,173 in 1909 to $4,020 in 1934. In the same period average cost of automobiles declined from $1,662 to about $678. Prefabricated houses are being talked about but the manufacturers seem inclined to feature expensive improvements, like air-cond'tioning, built-in radios, electric refrigeration, etc., rather than a low price. Along this line Robert L. Davidson, director of research of the John B. Pierce foundation, estimates that the lower one-third in income of our population pop-ulation pays an average of' $14 a month rent and therefore argues that the market that exists is f.;r a dwelling dwell-ing and site to sell under $2,500. Apparently, then the creation of houses in factories, to be erected and bolted together, must depend upon the sale, of large numbers and an organization or-ganization able to reduce costs by masa production. |