ABSTRACT
A well-known fact that should first of all be pointed out is the way in which the American worker in large cities and industrial areas meets his housing requirements: this has essential differences from that found among continental-European workers, particularly German ones. In a comparison between the American and the German worker one's judgement undoubtedly has to be the reverse of this: housing costs the American worker less rather than more than it does his German counterpart. To be sure, the American worker pays out much more than does, say, the German worker, frequently twice or three times the amount, but what the former receives in return is also correspondingly larger and more comfortable. If, on the other hand, one reckons what it costs to cover approximately the same housing requirements – say a room – one finds that prices in America are on average lower than in Germany.
