B.C. LUMBER WORKER 2nd Issue, January WANTED - - More Houses Discussion in the House of Commons regarding the housing shortage in Canada has again directed attention to a problem of direct interest to lumber workers. When the situation is analyzed, it is seen clearly that vigorous steps to build homes for those who need them most would enormously stimulate employment, and likewise stimulate lumber production. s The graphs shown on this page, reproduced from CCL Labor Research, based on the 1951 census, indicate the ex- tent to which home building could offset rising unemploy- ment, because of the glaring need, not only for new homes, but for the renovation of old ones. Since 1951 the situation has grown even worse. s Over-crowded dwellings in the cities number in excess of 375,000. A home is considered over-crowded when the number of persons exceeds the number of rooms. On this basis one out of five Canadian homes is over-crowded. A dwelling is classified as in need of repair when it has any of the following defects: (1) rotting foundations; (2) faulty roof or chimney; (3) unsafe outside steps or stair- ways; (4) interior badly in need of repair. A dwelling must be badly delapidated to fall into this category. Over 253,000 Some Facts About City Households: 5 out of, 1O live in single houses 5k out of 10 own their _own homes AADADAHAADA Aout of 10 = gpts or flats 1K out of 10 five in overcrowded homes y omeanicmae | aAAdDAADAAAAAA tout of {© lives in o dilapidated home ANAAARAADAA “Figures opproximate. “Double” 7 dwellings, or 20 percent of the total are in need of major repairs. Many of these are unfit for human habitation. Consideration of the lack of conveniences suffered by a large percentage of the population in homes leads to the possibilities of increased production and more employment to fill the need. : One out of four homes are without inside running water. One-half are without furnace heating. Forty-three percent lack or share a bathtub. Two-thirds lack or share a flush toilet. One-half are without gas or electric stoves. One-half are without mechanical refrigeration. A commonsense question at this time is, “Why should there be so many unemployed, when there is so much work to be done?” INCONVENIENCES City Households Without: Running Woter ao) r= fj 61 A nN Installed Bathtub ‘or Shower (exchisive use of) Flush Toilet (excl) Electric or Gas Range Refrigerator (mech) | ] Furnoce heating MORE . HOUSING FACTS NEARLY ONE-FIFTH of Can- adian households were over- erowded in 1951, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. THE BUREAU, reporting in a 1951 census bulletin on housing that some 641,820 households . (188 percent of the total) were overcrowded, defines a crowded household as one in which the number of persons exceeds the number of rooms in the dwelling. The definition does not take into aecount the ages of the persons ‘or the sizes of the rooms, AMONG URBAN centres, places with populations of fewer than 10,000 were found to have the largest proportion of crowded households, averaging 18.4 per- cent, followed by localities of 20,000 to 29,999 with 16.8 per- cent, cities of 100,000 or more with 15.7 percent and centres of 80,000 to 99,999 with 15.4 percent. |} SIXTY PERCENT of the erowded households and 67 per Gent of the uncrowded were own- er households. About 22 percent ef Canada’s tenant houscholds LE) Masten | ZEWORE HIM-HE JUST WANTS US To NorIce HIS NEW DAYTONS.