these fellows may be wondering about the next bananas not about the price of a night's lodging they've got a ceiling over their heads and what about these fellows they're sleeping with usually done without benefit of a ceiling graham or otherwise two million men are married since entering the showers and millions more were already married when they started packing packs are swinging se trouble finding an apartment or house like this one brick six rooms burning near our churches and shopping convenient transportation how much rent for this house for this couple together again after being separated by three and a half years of blue pacific water wells how much mr agent a little more than you expected was it and you make a joke go back and set out again with your pencil and paper and see if you can work it out that i say thirty folks are swell but a fellow would like to spend a little time alone with his wife after three and a half years of community living in barracks  may no longer be a private but his budget is one thing he'd like to keep that way particularly when he sees stuff like this coming  we had a time when housing where you were gone building materials and labor went to war and terms that should have gone into houses like this going into houses like this until the office of price administration stepped in to protect the people by holding the line not only on prices but on rent as well these men may not be able to define stabilization but skyrocketing rents are something they understand a lot of subjects are being discussed in american town meetings these days but one thing most people are agreed on is that rent control is a good thing i think s my name's johnson i own a house over on sixth street that's right it's well up has been for the past five years sure i'd like to get higher rents but i guess i got a higher rent somebody else would be entitled to hire theirs and somebody else again  entitled to hire that as well along at that rate we'd all be on a rollercoaster maintenance and repairs are landlords big problem today in view of material labor shortages if my tenants are willing to understand some of my problems in that respect i can get along with rent control the way i do what this country needs is a little more golden rule and a little less rule of go of my denims like room control well why don't you ask them my name is catherine kelly i live in one hundred ninety six mr kelly my husband works in the post office i guess he's about you call a salary man is a lot to be said for being a salaried man but i can tell you most of us never get rich at it what about rent control i don't know much about it except we were paying thirty nine dollars a month even before the war and we're still paying it we just couldn't pay anymore tie and sales of furniture but by the vigilance of cooperating lion lodge and other local citizens as well as government officials the public is protected next to food rent is the largest item in our budget lifting rent control while still scares with other price controls such a break up the line would be followed by skyrocketing prices and the kind of headache we had after will run which started when rents jumped fifty percent after armistice day with this situation becomes of the utmost importance to hold the line own ways to see stimulate the construction of new homes building material prices are being controlled and building supplies are being channeled to where they will be of the greatest good for the greatest number to the types of homes that will be some time before there are enough of these and these to satisfy adequately the tremendous pent up demand of the war years years when we stood shoulder to shoulder against people overseas but and