SYLLABUS OF CIVIC PROBLEMS 



Field Work. 



1. Put in outline form tlie kind of house you think every one ought to live in. 



(Keep in mind principles suggested in Standard of Housing.) 



2. Learn from a real estate dealer how much such a house rents for. 



3. Assuming that the home you have planned is that of a day laborer, how much of 



his wages would be used for rent? 



4. What do you conclude as to the amount of wages which he receives? 



5. How do the homes of the workingmen of your city come up to the standards you 



have set? (If you do not know, take a walk through the part of the city 

 where the workingmen live.) 



6. What reasons can you give for their way of living? 



7. Indicate by "Yes" or "No," on the survey blank, the standard of your own home. 



8. How do you think you could make more of the answers "Yes"? 



Note. — The.se surveys will give the teachers considerable insight into 

 living conditions of pupils' homes. 



9. How many vacant houses in your city? (Get the approximate number from a 



real estate dealer.) 



10. If many houses are vacant, why is rent so high? (Think of answers yourself 



and ask others.) 



11. What advantages would there be to the ownere of these houses to lower the rent? 



What disadvantages? 



12. What provision does your city make for housing the unemployed? (Ask the 



Mayor.) 



13. What would be the advantage of an emergency home for the unemployed? 



14. ■^Tiat are the private agencies doing in the way of housing? (Inquire of the 



Y. M. C. A., the Associated Charities, the Salvation Army, or other 

 existing agencies.) 



15. What need does their work show for an emergencj- home? 



References. 

 Pupils' Readings : 

 - Riis, Jacob. "How the Other Half Lives" (Select.). 



Riis, Jacob. "The Peril and Preservation of the Home" (Select). 



Riis, Jacob. "The Battle with the Slums" (Select.). 



Keingott, G. F. "The Record of a City" (Select.). (A survey of Lowell, Mass.) 



Weller, C. W. "Xeglected Neighbors in the National Capital" (Select.). 



Coulter, Ernest K. "The Children in the Shadow" (Select.). 



Solenberger, Alice W. "One Thousand Homeless Men" (Select.). 



The Bournville A'illage Trust. (Pub. of Am. City.) 



Wyckofif, W. A. "The Workers— The East" (Select.). 



Wyckoflt', W. A. "The Workers— The West" (Select.). 



Survey, 27 : 1313— England. W. P. "The Lodging House." 



World Today, 21 : 857 — Brown. Edwin A. "Living with the Homeless." "The 



City as a Landlord of the Poor." 

 World Today, 21 : 940 — Brown, Edwin A. "A Municipal Emergency Home a 



National Need." 

 Survey, 22 : 749 — Lewis, O. F. "Municipal Lodging Houses." 

 Conference of Charities and Corrections for 1904 : 1.55-167 — Robus, R. "What 



Constitutes a Model Municipal Lodging House." 

 Conference of Charities and Corrections for 1903 : 404-11 — Willard, Alice C. "Re- 

 instatement of Vagrants Through Municipal Lodging Houses." 

 Technical World, 21 : 250 — Dawes, R. F. "A Ladder for the Down and Outs." 

 American City, 9 : 71 — "Workingmen's Dwellings in France." 

 American City, 9 : 69 — "Municipal Tenements for Widows with Children." 

 Craftsman, 26 : 349-51— "A Model Village and a New Building Material." 

 American City, 12 : 16.5 — Kellogg. "Improved Housing for a Mining Town." 

 Survey, 32: 1.54-56, 276-80, 366-71, 466-71, 575-84— Bacon, A. F. "Beauty for 

 Ashes." 



