ABSTRACT

This chapter emphasis that the problem of slum elimination throughout the nation lies within a domain which the individual states cannot reach and over which the Congress alone has power. The Congress in the author's judgement is exercising a power expressly conferred and ceded to it by the states in taxing and maldng appropriations for these purposes. Two principal features of the act of 1934 are: One, that the act has as one of its outstanding purposes the procurement of financial aid from the government; second, that the work contemplated is of a public nature. The fundamental purpose of government is to protect the health, safety, and general welfare of the public. Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority is a body politic and corporate duly organized and existing under the Housing Authority Law. Thus, Anti-social slum areas exist in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Richmond, Cleveland, Birmingham, Denver and Seattle, abnd other centers of population.