Notes on the Month

Extract

Slum clearance. Catholics stress the importance of the home, and therefore, considering the great displacement of population and improvement of conditions involved, will require little persuasion as to the need of busying themselves with the workings of the recent Housing Act. This may take the form of concerted action to promote Catholic Housing Associations, through groups specially formed for the purpose or through already existing societies. To an outsider, the capacity and resources of the Knights of St. Columba seem to fit them admirably for such a work. Mr. Thomas Foster, in last month’s Blackfriars, outlined the necessity and practicability of such schemes. But there is a place for individual Catholic action as well, and in this connection we print the following letter to the Editor.