Active Home Building Helping Industries

Citation: "Active Home Building Helping Industries," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 13 December 1931, p. 46; image, Newspapers.com (clipping by mattjameswade, 5 July 2019).

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Active Home Building Helping Industries
More than 50 laborers in various branches of industry are put to work every time a suburban home is bought or built. More than a dozen industries are directly benefited.
Through the interlocking cogs of business, countless persons are given assurance of retaining their jobs and new fields of employment open up with each new home that is constructed.
For these reasons, according to Frank Wade of William W. [sic] Wade, Inc., Long Island builders, every person contemplating the purchase of a home has it directly in his power to aid materially in breaking the deadlock gripping industry.
"Naturally, any and every purchase made at a time such as this, whether it be an outright necessity or some sheer luxury, has some helpful effect in aiding unemployment and keeping the wheels of industry turning," declared Mr. Wade, who at present, is developing Kensington Gardens, Hempstead.
"But I doubt whether there is one single purchase any person could make that has more far-reaching effects upon all branches of industry than the purchase of a home.
"In the construction of a house alone, consider how many workers are employed. There are carpenters, bricklayers, stonemasons, plasterers, painters, electricians, steam-fitters, iron-workers, steel-workers, cement workers, ditch-diggers, plumbers, surveyors, draughtsmen, landscape gardeners and others who play indispensable parts in home building."