In quickly settled housing areas this community spirit has not yet had time to develop.  The people have not chosen to live there:  a house has been “allotted” to them.  With a feeling of relief that their immediate problem is solved, they move in; but they soon find themselves in an area without any established traditions or the buildings associated with those traditions.  Churches, schools, halls, and monuments are entirely non-existent or very new.  The areas left for sports grounds, parks, and reserves are still largely undeveloped.  The occupants of the new houses have not the financial capacity to provide these things, and there are seldom any private benefactors, because there is not a stratum of wealthy people in or near these settlements who might be benevolently inclined to help the district where they reside.  The help which the new residents can give, or obtain from the State, churches, or other organizations to provide a community fellowship, must fall far short of what is usually obtainable in areas which grow up normally and naturally.

(c) Overcrowding of Houses

Houses in the new areas are often found too small as the boys and girls grow up.  The result is streets of overcrowded homes unsuitable for family life.  The tendency for the young people to seek their pleasures away from their home and district is therefore greater than it is in mature communities.

(d) Tendency to Form Groups or Gangs

Where a large number of children live near one another, and many of them are left by their parents to their own devices, the formation of groups or gangs is inevitable.  Some of these children are not moulded into the activities of churches or other helpful organizations.  They simply coalesce by the accident of their circumstances, and make their own fun, in which, unfortunately, the influence for good of the better among them is often outweighed by the misbehaviour and dangerous propensities of others.

(e) Emotional and Mental Factors

New housing areas tend to be populated by a large proportion of those people whose outlook on life has been affected by disturbances in their early married years.  Marrying during, or soon after, the Second World War, they were obliged to live in small apartments or transit camps and were thereby unable to live the normal life of a married couple.  Either because of this, or because of conditions existing in the housing areas, there does not seem to be the same group willingness to improve their conditions as is seen in older communities.  Indeed, individual cases show a virtual lack of self-reliance.

There is the further factor that when the breadwinner has to travel a long distance to work he is not able to spend as much time with his family as is desirable, or to share in the work of the community.

(f) Little Variety in Amenities

Young communities cannot immediately provide, from their own resources and enthusiasm, all the amenities normal in an established settlement.  Necessarily, these must be added one by one, and in the meantime the residents have to participate in a restricted range of activities.