THE HOUSING PROBLEM
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,--Everybody is very busy building new houses— most necessary and desirable.. But nobody seems busy enough over educating a certain class against the shim habit.
It is undoubtedly a habit of mind, and until we get people sufficiently educated to wish to live in a clean and seemly manner, so long shall we have the best of dwellings returning to slums in a very brief period.
Let us therefore concentrate all our energies and educate hnd educate and educate till we entirely eradicate the slum habit of mind.--I am, Sir, &c., 18 Rutland Gale, S.W. 7.
LAURA IIENDERSON.
[Very true. But a heavy responsibility rests with the better-off section of the community who tolerate slum con- ditions to continue. We have heard of many rehousing experi- ments where 90 per cent. of thdse rehoused respond to their new environment. Of course, there are some hopeless cases who have the slum mind and will always relapse to type. But were funds available to demolish all the sluins of Great Britain and manage them on Octavio Hill lines, the great majority of the rehoused population would not relapse.— ED. Spectator.]
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