Family Expenditures For Housing And Household Operations

Author : Hazel Kyrk
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366457755
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Family Expenditures for Housing and Household Operation written by Hazel Kyrk and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Family Expenditures for Housing and Household Operation: Five Regions Current expenditures of owners do not represent the total cost of their home ownership. Interest on money spent for purchasing the house should be added, along with interest on disbursements for major improvements, such as installation Of a furnace or other additions which may be considered a type of investment rather than a current expense. Were these taken into account, the average total yearly costs Of owning would doubtless approach rather closely the average sums spent for rent; in fact, they would be greater at some income levels. (see tables 3 and Just what the differences would be cannot be learned from this study; the owner's investment was not ascertained, hence interest on it cannot be computed. But owning families generally had better homes than the renters at similar income levels - a fact that must be taken into account when comparing the housing costs of the former group with rents paid by the latter. The houses of the owners had a higher rental value and tended to be larger and more modern, as evidenced by the greater proportion equipped with such facilities as central furnace, running hot and cold water in kitchen or bath, and indoor flush toilet. Doubt less differences in comfort were even greater than would be indicated by such statistics. Owners are more likely to add closets and cup boards if these are lacking, to make minor repairs as needed, to plant shrubbery and improve the y.ard Most of the families in these small cities and villages lived In detached houses and presumably had lawns and space for gardens. Standards of upkeep of rented dwellings in small communities are far below those maintained in the high rental apartments of large cities; hence, homes Of many of these renters may have been more in need of paint, paper, and repairs than were those Of owners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.