Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-05

Omaha has about the proper amount of
slack.
The verbatim report of the committee
follows:
The committee which you appointed for
the purpose Of investigating the number
of vacant houses in Omaha, after having
made very careful census and study Of
conditions, beg to report the following:
The committee finds that in Omaha
proper not including East Omaha, Dun
dee or the other suburbs, the number OF
vacant houses will not exceed SOC. For
the purpose OF getting better idea of
how the empty houses are situated, the
committee has divided the city into seven
districts, naming that part of the city
north OF Locust street as district No. l.
The total number OF houses in that dis
trict are eighty-one or 10 per cent OF all
the empty houses In the city.
That district lying between Locust and
Cunning streets from Sixteenth to Thir-
tieth streets, which is the most densely
settled district in the city OF Omaha,
some lots being improved by three or
houses or about 26 per cent of the total
number of empty houses.
p, From Locust to Cunning streets, west OF
Thirtieth, we call district No. g. In this
district there are eighty-four houses or
IL per cent of the total number.
From Cunning to Leavenworth, from
our roomlng house district and business
and investment propositions. There are
l23 houses or 16 per cent OF the total
number in this district.
The district No. ) is from Cunning to
Lcavenworth. west OF Thirtieth street
which Is the bon ton district OF Omaha
This has eighty,,eight houses empty OF
l1la per cent Of the total.
District No. 6. south of Leavenworth
from Twenty-eighth east TO the river, il
the district comprising a mixture Of al
per cent of all.
District No. is from Leavenwortr
south and from Twenty-eighth street
west. This is the smallest district and
has ninety-seven houses vacant or II pei
cent of all the number.
On an average the committee thinks
distributed throughout the city. In dl.
viding the houses into sizes we find the
small houses Of three and four rooms are
10 per cent; all fiYe-room cottages are q
per cent of the while; six and seven,
room houses are 3S per cent and eight and
nine-rOom houses are p per cent; ten
room houses are per cent.
Dividing the houses into the several
prices we find that the houses that rent
up to SIS per month are 20 per cent OF
the whole; from SIS to S25 houses are q
per cent; from f25 to $35 houses are 2lH
per cent and over SS5 houses are 9h pei
cent.
The committee received only 4s1 an.
sWers as TO the kind and condition of the
houses and out OF the 4s1 answers 2l5, OF
A per cent are new and 266, or Sc per cent
are old, which would show that in com
parison between the new and old houses
| In the city they are about evenly divid ed
out OF the $50 houses which we could find
as to the class OF buildings, 265 were
detached frame houses and 135 were bricl
flats and l54 frame flats.
On the whole the committee finds tina
we have not too many empty houses II
the city OF Omaha and that the rentals
in Omaha proper are in wholesome con
| dition. There tire approximately fifty
/ active real estate agencies which handle
/ a substantial rental business. That would
| give Omaha an average Of sixteen house,
| per agency.
There are approximately 5000 families
] in Omaha. which means that there arr
| homes vacant.
Considering that there is an averag,
| OF 900 removals each month, each pros
pective tenant has only four houses from
/ which to pick his home.
The sale last week by Herman Neuhaul
10 Henry Neuhaus OF q 1ls-aere farm