In 1953, there were two and a half billion (2,500,000,000) people
on Earth. In 1993, there were five billion (5,000,000,000) people
on Earth. The population doubled in less than half a century. In
the 21st Century, the population has time to double, double again
, and double again. A conceivable twenty billion (20,000,000,000)
people may need ten billion (10,000,000.000) housing units.
From 1946 until 1973 eighty percent of the American housing
starts were built in the suburbs, during the greatest era of
prosperity in the history of the United States, never to be
matched again. Ten billion (10,000,000,000) housing units will
never be built to solve the problem. Fewer people are not coming
into the world. There will always be more people coming into the
world. Most of these new people will never live inside a modern
house as we know it. The ten millions (10,000,000) homeless
children in Brazil are already a graphic demonstration of the
masses that will need to survive on outdoor land.
In the United States, we are not hard pressed for public land.
Federal public lands alone equal over six hundred and fifty
million (650,000,000) acres, not to mention what is owned by
counties and states. Much of this land is sitting there, unused.
These fallow lands are waiting for a law to put them to use.
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