Architect and engineer . ENTRANCE DETAIL, HOUSE OF THOS. DRISCOLL, P. HOBART, ARCHITECT THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 71 Why House Building Must Increase By WHARTON CLAY. THE stability of the building industry is based, like every other industry,upon supply and demand. The increasing population demands moredwellings, and building will, unquestionably, continue; 1918 saw only20,000 new houses built. There should have been twenty times that many. Nineteen hundred and nineteen was some better, with 70,000 dwellingscom-pleted, according to the estimates by the U. S. Housing Corporation. But
Architect and engineer . ENTRANCE DETAIL, HOUSE OF THOS. DRISCOLL, P. HOBART, ARCHITECT THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 71 Why House Building Must Increase By WHARTON CLAY. THE stability of the building industry is based, like every other industry,upon supply and demand. The increasing population demands moredwellings, and building will, unquestionably, continue; 1918 saw only20,000 new houses built. There should have been twenty times that many. Nineteen hundred and nineteen was some better, with 70,000 dwellingscom-pleted, according to the estimates by the U. S. Housing Corporation. But stillthe increase in population is far outstripping the building program for newhouses. While in 1890, an average of families occupied each 100 homes,today that figure has mounted to 121 families for every 100 dwellings. Hence,the present acute congestion. With a conservative estimate of 27,900000 families in 1925 the great housingshortage will continue unless building in all parts of the country increases to anex
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