To the Editor: In addition to the human costs of budget cutting cited by Bob Herbert is another tragic result of a nation "ill clad, ill housed and ill nourished," as Franklin D. Roosevelt defined it during the Great Depression.
His army, twice beaten, ill housed, and ill fed, with thousands of men "barefoot and otherwise naked," was at the point of exhaustion; it could not keep the field, for inside of a month it would have disappeared.
Back in the 1930s, a third of the country was ill housed, ill clothed and ill fed, not because we couldn't manufacture enough homes, shirts or vegetables, but because consumers could not afford to buy them.
More important, it bodes ill for house prices.
Homebuilding is unlikely to recover soon, although the pace of decline may slow.This bodes ill for house prices.
Every mentally ill person, housed or unhoused, deserves appropriate care and treatment for their illness, even if that appropriate care and treatment means commitment in a mental institution.
As Ms. Hamilton wrote of the family of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Electra: "It was an ill-fated house...
Amelia (Essie Davis) is a widow, living in a small and ill-lit house with Samuel (Noah Wiseman), her only child.
Geel is a small city in Belgium with a long tradition of providing the mentally ill with housing and care in private homes.
Election-year politics and an ill-advised House strategy requiring two-thirds approval got in the way of the July vote, which nevertheless registered bipartisan majority support.
Workmen carrying out the demolition of the ill-fated house started the preliminary work of erecting scaffolding and carrying out safety inspections today ahead of the removal of the roof.
