(He had written in his diary, in 1954, "It seems that I should take an oath and remember it for my life-time: to provide the lowest class with the proper dwelling").
A health inspector has condemned Highly's "hut with a hole in the roof," forcing him to ready his prized collection of books for sale — "worth millions," he says, "rare an' precious" — in order to raise money for a proper dwelling.
I think container apartments and tiny homes are both examples of ways of living, that while not conforming to standard notions of what a proper dwelling should be, still provide homes that its residents are happy to take in place of the traditional alternatives.
The order stated that winter conditions could endanger those without "proper shelter, dwellings, or sanitation for prolonged periods of time," and that the dwellings used by protestors, who call themselves water protectors, were not approved by Morton County officials to be suitable for the current weather conditions.
"Winter conditions have the potential to endanger human life, especially when they are exposed to those conditions without proper shelter, dwellings or sanitation for prolonged periods of time," Dalrymple's order said.
These will encourage responsible ownership, neutering, cremation of dead cats, confinement of cats inside the home, limiting the number of cats per household, regular cleaning of dwellings, proper health care for the animals, and general public health measures such as basic sanitation, regular garbage collection, and cleaning of empty lots.
Most people in Accra, the sprawling capital on the coast that is a magnet drawing in perhaps 4m of the country's 25m people, live in dwellings without proper addresses with no street names, let alone numbers.
"While intimate dwelling spaces like bedrooms and closets are proper subjects of an open house, it is nevertheless the spaces themselves that are the subjects of disclosure, and not the owner or his or her possessions within those spaces".
With cooking, proper ventilation can be more important than sealing up dwellings.
Do not be surprised if, whatever proper name it is eventually assigned, the new, mountain-dwelling, central-Asian species actually becomes known as the yeti.
The duty itself is laid out in Section 1(1), and is a duty on the people covered by the act "to see that the work which he takes on is done in a workmanlike or, as the case may be, professional manner, with proper materials and so that as regards that work the dwelling will be fit for habitation when completed".
