ABSTRACT
Consider the most careful study of the effects of good housing of the public housing project variety on family relations, that of Daniel M. Wilner and his associates. To couple together two terms as "housing policy" and "family" is to immediately suggest something that may not be true—that is, that there are some key effects of one upon the other. Many of the ill effects come from overcrowding rather than the structural characteristics of housing that the reader often think of when they speak of poor housing. Past the threshold of the most inadequate housing, it would appear that crowding has the most serious effects on the family and socialization. Unquestionably for the specific group there is a decisive relationship between housing quality and family life, and yet other factors are easily capable of overwhelming any positive effects of an improvement in housing.
