Our Lighted Victorian Metal House
is 11½ Inches tall. The Christmas Figurines Metal House is hand painted and has a C-7 night light size light bulb that fits in a slot in the bottom of the house. The Christmas cottage has patches of iridescent snow on the roof. The Chimney and the bottom half of the Christmas cottage is painted to look like bricks. The upper portion of the house is painted to look like stucco with wood trim. The front of the house has a bay window decorated with a bayleaf swag with a mauve colored bow. There is a small upper window with pine wreath decorated with a mauve bow and red balls on these Unique Christmas Gifts. There are awnings over two of the windows. There are four small decorated pine trees on the 9½ by 10½ inch base around the house with patches of iridescent snow. The electric Christmas cottage is UL approved for 120 volts and a C-7 light bulb is included. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

History of Housing.
During colonial times, most people in the United States lived on farms or in small towns. As late as 1840, only about 8 percent of the people lived in cities or towns with populations of more than 8,000. Today, about 80 percent live in urban areas. The industrial Revolution, which began in the 1700’s, produced much unplanned city development. Thousands of people moved to cities to find work and builders put up almost any kind of housing to meet the demand. Many businesses, factories and houses stood side by side on narrow streets. Blocks of tenement houses appeared in large cities of the United States, Britain, France and other industrial countries. The first housing law in the United States was passed by New York City in 1867. The law set minimum ventilation, sanitation and safety requirements for tenements.
By the 1900’s, a world housing shortage existed, chiefly because of the population increase and the concentration of the population in urban areas. The expansion of industry, a shortage of construction workers and a lack of money for new housing also helped cause the housing shortage.
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Housing Since 1900.
New housing construction fell to inadequate levels during World Wars I and II because builders lacked materials. During the Great Depression of the 1930’s, people had little money for building. During the 1960’s, more and more families moved from rural areas to cities, causing serious housing shortages in spite of stepped up housing construction.
The United States had a building boom in the 1920’s. The depression of the 1930’s led the government to take an active part in housing. The Public Works Administration built 59 projects in 36 cities. The FHA, created under the National Housing Act of 1934, established the amortized mortgage. This type of mortgage can be repaid in monthly installments, rather than in a lump sum. The United States Housing Act of 1937 set up a U.S. Housing Authority to help build public housing for low income families. The Farmers Home Administration was established in 1946 to provide loans for rural housing. The administration operated until 1994, when the new Rural Housing and Community Development Service took over responsibility for making such loans.
Housing construction increased rapidly after World War II. Since 1949, private builders have constructed more than a million housing units yearly. The high point came in 1950, when they built almost 2 million new units. In the late 1960’s, over half of all the homes in the United States had been built since 1945.
condominiums became increasingly popular in the United States during the 1970’s. Many rental apartment buildings were purchased by developers and turned into condominiums. This trend reduced the number of available rental units and led to an increased demand for such units, resulting in higher rents.