New-York tribune., 1918-08-24
The Great Rent Feud
Harlem Has Its Rent Raises, But a
Minimum of Repairs and New Paint
By Kenneth Macgowan
Sirth Article

By Kenneth Macgowan
SirthA
DAY of exploration up tenant uA
~ hadn't had his raised
charity produced reduced
stationary shape vnn
negro giggng bottle perfumejest AZ
give girl aparn.
bit of London called Mount Park H.
looked if he might be the elevator boy
He what had that bu
$40 and $40
old tenant the IS raise
"Eowa your
"oh! They amt raised but lives hope We've only been
there three months"
New York.. Record Landlord
worker at the Union Settlement East lo4h Street furnished
remembered the
perfectly Judging by the of the other charity workers
Harlem, he had good
This landlord And the rent
hadn't amounted to great deal to start with for these were dwate
Inc excuse he gave the by word OF mouth
stead of in the usual arboncopy form that breaks the
that he wanted keep his house FULL and he couldn't labor
or the for repantng and repairs
1t isn't that with the other codwater charity
workers know-except about paint plumbers.
to genera,
There all their arr
oo cents Eighoar to hfteendoar apartments have jumped dollar
Above that these workers people
that used to be s27 $751; urroom fat the other
took leap from $40 to S26.
Among people the raise seems
have been fr
s22 s24 s2e hand the charity
worker believes that the quality of the housing and
and make the prices paid before the raises
A City of No Repairs
very general complaint among the charity
peopleth live
In the district between Nneyfth Street 1o4h
worker the charity m
sanitary and naueatng condition the
THE raises general she said There
people don't That's partly moving much
we used to be able family for S.
and usually SO $40 But stand the mainly
e empty nats are worse tan the ones they're m Roofs leak
the is rotten the falling
where I'm talking about the houses
know the better you pAoor flat
with roof leaking three which reported
we'll as the twice without find
the owners-too subsidiary easers:
AS for raises I've just been trying to find another fiat
at Ninety Street and First
anywhere
Street. the adworker of the Fedp
on Settlement likewise testified the that gen.
era her neghbohood poor condition. She
added that had the cost ~
had much higher Food and clothing more said
that $2Oa-wek nowadays about
Income Boosts That Beat Rent Raises
Between 1oh the land of the shovea
TORE the home of the with poor houses
and charity worker of that neigbborboo
But it also plentiful money has made the
KING In 1914 he got s75 day. but day.
ceased, and now he gets s35o-every day
Maybe it's the falling off of Ceases ANYWAY this
WORKER woman began by saying that
schedule like 'N' "
one-dolar One raises from 81 81 month"; per
Unquestonab that boosted his vages more than
oo per cent in four these mperg
does But charity worker to see that other sorts
who happen apartment houses of these
knights OF the shovel be against it.
There are vacanc worker Houses are wr
Dad conol1on through have
Bronx But moving to be possible to move small
ames TOR So Now it's $40 verv few vans or wagons
This workers Street west of Fifth Avenue is
interesting study IN values She
pu'' '' was SUNG as green newcomer
rooms When she met her neghbors learned what the previous
tenant mad paid she kicked and s5 But since the
mas Jump 70 $685. and now to s42 And holds good No
it. No moving kick it down S 49,
"h'ch seems to be the story of Harlem.
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