Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-30


THs UNIvERsAL WANT.-Not only in the
city is it true that there is a great scarcity
of houses to rent, but in every town and
village, throughout Northern Ohio at least,
the complaint comes up that there are not
houses enough to supply the demand. The
Youngstown Register says: "0ur tow never
was so full of people as now, and never had
brighter prospects for future growth and
prosperity. Although nearly a hundred
new dwellings have been erected during the
past year, it is next to impossible to rent
any kind Of q building" In Akron, &C
cording TO the Beacon, Notwithstanding
the large number of houses erected during
the past two years, there is still a very in
adequate supply, and capitalists, as high as
building materials and labor are, would do
well TO invest some of their surplus funds
in that direction" OF gainesville, the
Telegraph says: Renters are plenty, but
houses are like angels visits. If some we'll
to-do philanthropic gentleman would build
about a hundred good tenant houses he
would confer a blessing on our town, and
add much 10 his own pecuniary gains"
The same thing is true of Ashtabu where,
as the Telegraph of that village says, "the
renters go about the streets looking and
looking, but find no place TO which they
may betake themselves and their families.
What the upshot of the whole matter is
going to be we do not know, but we do
know that, judging from present appear
ances, there will not be more than one
house to rent in our town in the spring TO a
half dozen hat are now wanting them"
The oberlin Nc,0s says the activity in real
estate sales in that place this spring is un-
p~recedented. "Many buy who would pre-
fer to rent but find that impossible. We do
not know of a single house in town, or a
single suite of rooms that are for rem"
Such is the case everywhere. Renters
plenty, but houses few
A Cincinnati exchange remarks of that
place, and it applies appropriately to all
other cities, that the annual moving season
is again near at hand, and those who have
vet 10 seek a habitation for the ensuing
year are at a distressing loss to know
whittier to turn to realize the great need of
the human being-a home. Thousands
there are among us who at this time are
thinking wofully over the prospect, sntici-
pating the time when, within two short
months hence-"no, not two months"-they
must set their household goods once more
in motion and take their flight they know
not whittier. The great scarcity of resi-
denees in Cleveland is not the least of our
municipal ineonvenieneies, though, taking
it as a sure index of prosperity, we may be
the more reconciled to it. OF course it is
with houses as it is with all other descrip-
tions of property, the competition deter
mines the present value. When houses are
more plentiful than tenants, then rents are
found below par; and when, as with us,
would be tenants are more numerous than
houses, then rents are at premium rates.
We notice that building associations have
been formed in Pittsburgh and Chicago on
the plan of cooperation, whereby each
member, in the course of a few years, by
an outlay weekly, not exceeding s., can Sc
cure himself a permanent home without
feeling the expense.