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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. B.J. Rogan and their small son, Bernie, at home in the living room of their new defense home in Erie, Pennsylvania. Mr. Rogan is a drill press operator at the nearby General Electric Company plant. He earns $42.50 a week, and pays about twenty percent of his income for rent. Before moving into a newly constructed defense home at the Franklin Terrace housing project, he lived in a remodeled attic, and then in a trailer. For the latter he paid 6 dollars a week, including all utilities

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