The lower-cost housing in the United States, published in 1972. For the past decade there has been an intense effort to formulate and implement housing practices and policies that would solve our housing problems. In fact, one might describe the period of the sixties as a frantic scramble to come up with one idea or combination of ideas that would prove to be the cure. Major studies, sweeping legislation, dramatic goals came and went almost faster than they could be tried, until now we are left with a complex and chaotic housing policy that still cannot provide the quality and variety in shelter that we need. For the consumer, housing has a qualitative and quantitative context. The qualitative aspects were made quite clear in the report of the President’s Committee on Urban Housing (the Kaiser Committee). Subsequent studies and Congressional action have confirmed their work, and though we need not linger on the well-known, it is valuable to reflect upon some of what that committee found. In order to provide enough standard housing for the entire population by 1978, the nation would need to build 13.4 million dwelling units for the new young families formed in the decade ahead, and replace or rehabilitate 8.7 million units that are expected to deteriorate into substandard condition, and replace 3 million units that will be accidentally or intentionally destroyed, and build 1.6 million units to create the proper proportion of vacancies for an increasingly mobile population.