Wilton lvie - A Place To Live In - Technocracy Digest - November 1955:
To provide a high standard of housing for all citizens requires a social strategy which is in an opposite direction from that being pushed by business promotion. Technocracy's design for housing far surpasses anything else that has ever been proposed.
"The haphazard effort now being made to house the population of North America reeks with all the commercial rot that characterizes nearly everything we do under the Price System. In housing, as in other things, the game is to ream the consumer for all he has plus all he can borrow.
At present, the socio-business pressures are directed toward larger, more elegant, and more gadgeted houses, with more spacious lots, and situated at greater distances from town. Thus, the social trend in housing is toward Suburbia, except for one thing - the cost, both individual and social. To provide a high standard of housing for all North Americans requires a social strategy which is in an opposite direction from that being pushed by business promotion.
Basic to all the other pursuits of the individual must be a dwelling which he can call home. Some types of 'homes' can be so burdensome and inconvenient as to constitute a drag on the life of the people living in them - they demand too much and provide too little. At its best, the home should provide the most in the way of comfort, conveniences, and facilities and demand the least in care, cost and worry. In providing the best for all the people, Technocracy's design for housing far surpasses anything else that has ever been proposed. It is here, ready and waiting to be put into effect as soon as enough people on this Continent get tired and disgusted with their struggles under the Price System."
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