Housing of the Nonwhite Population, 1940 to 1950

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Housing and Home Finance Agency, Office of the Administrator, Division of Housing Research, 1952 - 42 halaman

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Halaman 17 - A housing unit is a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and...
Halaman 17 - ... incorporated towns of 2,500 inhabitants or more except in New England, New York, and Wisconsin, where "towns...
Halaman 2 - ... of overcrowded units, with more than 1% persons per room, among nonfarm dwellings occupied by nonwhites was some four times as high as that for whites. In nonfarm housing only, the proportion of dilapidated homes among nonwhites was five times as high as among whites — 27 percent as compared to...
Halaman 17 - dilapidation' as occurring when 'a dwelling unit is run-down or neglected, or is of inadequate original construction so that it does not provide adequate shelter or protection against the elements or it endangers the safety of the occupants'.
Halaman 2 - ... times as high among nonwhites as among whites. Annual money earnings of nonwhite workers not only doubled but apparently trebled during the decade, as indicated by rough comparison of census data on yearly incomes for 1939, 1945, and 1949. This increase in earnings was associated with, and presumably reflected in, the higher rates of improvement in housing supply as well as increase in home ownership among nonwhites than whites. Yet, at the end of the decade in 1950, there still remained broad...
Halaman 17 - The terms household, quasi-household and family are used in this table as defined in 1950 by the Bureau of the Census. A household includes all of the persons who occupy a house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a room that constitutes a dwelling unit.
Halaman 2 - At the same time, the proportion of overcrowded units (with more than one and a half persons per room) among nonfarm dwellings occupied by nonwhites was some four times as high as that for whites, and the nonfarm rate of doubling (married couples rooming with other families) was two and a half times as high among nonwhites as among whites.
Halaman 1 - Nonwhites comprised 10.3 percent of the total population in 1950, but occupied only 8.6 percent of all occupied dwelling units. The nonwhite population increased at a faster rate than the number of dwelling units it occupied — 15 percent against 10 percent — whereas the reverse was true for whites — 14 percent against 23 percent. For nonfarm areas alone, the nonwhite population rose by nearly 40 percent, while the number of dwelling units it occupied increased by only 31 percent. The...
Halaman 17 - owner-occupied" if the owner or co-owner is one of the persons living in the unit (or absent from the household for a short period of time, such as a family member in the Armed Forces or temporarily working away from home) even if he has not fully paid for the unit or has a mortgage on it. A cooperative apartment unit is owner-occupied if the owner lives in it.
Halaman 17 - color" refers to the division of population into two groups, white and nonwhite. The group designated as "nonwhite" consists of Negroes, Indians, Japanese, Chinese, and other nonwhite races. Persons of Mexican birth or ancestry who were not definitely Indian or of other nonwhite race were classified as white in 1950 and 1940. In the 1930 publications, Mexicans were included in the group "Other races," but the 1930 data published in this report have been revised to include Mexicans in the white population.

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