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Overcrowding threat to health —

—See Page Eight

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Vancouver Housing Association blasts inaction of city council

If Vancouver aldermen had gone to the art
Sallery in the fall of 1945, or in previous years when
e. Candidates for civic office their speeches were

right with the promise of postwar housing schemes
? Come, they might have studied an architectural
Splay there. ; :

That display was the work of an ‘Art in Living’
efoup of artists made up of students, graduates and
fachers from Vancouver School of Arts, optimisti-
rally “looking forward to the estimated 500,000
‘mes to be built in the next five years.’ Their

slogan was: ‘Homes—not just houses.’

The ‘Art in Living’ group pointed the way to
what might be done — under a progressive civic
administration. But in the reluctant hands of the
Civic Non-Partisan administration, more concerned
in protecting real estate interests than in solving the
housing problem, the slogan has become: ‘Neither
homes nor houses.’ Every proposal for low-cost
housing has been obstructed by aldermen and the
problem of slum clearance remains untouched.

Continued on Page 8—See HOUSING

@ These pictures, taken by the
National Film Board two
years ago show some activities
of the ‘Art in Living’ group. Be-
low is depicted the contrast be-
tween the shacks many people
are forced to live in because de-
cent housing is not available and
Vancouver artist Bert Binning’s
modern, scientifically planned
home—the kind of home denied
to most people by civic obstruc-
tion, government buck-passing and
high cost of building materials.