The sun., 1919-05-12
GOVERNOR TO SPUR
DRIVE FOR HOUSES


"2. Insurance companies or the other
usual sources OF loan.
"3. Limited dividend corporations
-. Building and loan associations.
as. Fuller use of existing buildings.
such as turning OF old single family
dwellings into multifamily houses. or
the repair OF older tenements which are
now practically out Of use.
So Dealers in building materials
through lowering or stabilizlng the price
of materials.
IF these agencies failed to respond
sufficiently in supplying additional hous-
ing. we proceeded to inquire as to how
to take care of the increasing population
I'VE have examined with care all pro-
posed legislation in regard to rent prof.
teering and wish to advise you that these
or any other legislation of this type
cannot be expected TO give any relsef--The
rising rents are merely symptom, the
disease Is lack Of sufficient houses Land
lords in many cases were found to be
justified in raising their rents because OF
the increased cost of management
Unusually live cunning is expected
during the remainder OF the open sea-
son for profteering landlords. Extra
ginger 10 to be put into the hunt by the
entrance into the investigational held
Of the Joint Legislative Committee,
which will have its first public session
Thursday morning in City Hall.
AS this committee had Its Inception
In Republican Legislature. its activi-
ties, many believe, will spur Mayor
Hylan's Committee on Rent Pronteering
and Gov Smiths Reconstruction Com
mission In driving into the open "ge'
rich quick landlords and apartment
! house '1easters' and in recommending
plans for the solution OF the vexine
housing problem.
Already many rent boosters have
taken to cover to avoid being poi
shotted by the Mayors committee ant
the Democratic organizations small
army of lawyers, which Is helping the
committee In getting relief for tenants
who have been imposed upon. A good
many landlords accused of excessive
charges for rents. have changed theii
minds about evicting tenants for re-
fusing to pay increased rentals and have
compromised In many Of these case:
where landlords and tenants got to
gether tenants have been permitted &c
remain in apartments at less than the
rentals demanded under leases that as.
sured homes for stipulated periods.
The invitation extended by the Joint
Centenary Committee OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church to Chairman Nathar
| Hirsch OF the Mayors committee L
| shelter evicted families in Methods
churches worked wonders in putting &
crimp into the Programme OF landlord:
10 dispossess families. Many landlord:
have confessed that II wouldn't be pleas
ant to have 1t known publicly that the
churches were obliged to house men
| women and children whom they 'hat
| thrown into the street"
\ large number OF dispossess case
adjourned by Municipal Court Justice!
| from time TO time. will be disposed o
| this week. which probably will mean &
| lot OF homeless families. Many civic
tons are scheduled for to-day and TO-
morrow. Those who cannot find homes
| according 10 Capt Charles A. Gold
smith, Chairman Hirsch's field agent 1,
the housing work, will be sheltered IL
churches during the emergency
In a report Of a housing survey o
certain blocks In Manhattan. The BronI
and Brooklyn. the Governors Recon
struction Commission said;
| "One OF the outstanding conclusion
| Of the Investigators is that relief iron
| existing conditions wherein the deman'
for apartments is greatly in excess o
the amount of housing that is availabl
Is in the immediate resumption OF build
| ing operations. Relief can be secures
only through building programme Of
a large scale IN which persons OF mean
and corporations organized especial.
| for the purpose, in conjunction with in
| stitutions that are able and willing I
| loan money at reasonable rates. vii
undertake to bring about a condition Il
which the supply of houses will approxi
mate the demand