The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-13
Gouging Still Continues
on Wartime Scale
of Profits
RENT HOG NOT HIT
WAGES Are Cut, Living Prices
Go Down, but Rent Stays
at the Top
ry LLOYD MaoGRIFF.


ion. according to y countrywide sur
,sy ius. completed by the Interna-
3onal News Service.
Building Of new homes and apart
nerts going torward-if II can be
aid 20 be going forward at all--in
dov hAltins fashion.
In scores OF cities, where high
.ents and unemployment have forced
many families TO abandon expensive
,helters the price of place In
Ehlch 20 live has not declined, de-
pite many apartments being idle.
Few states have been able to
rapple with tho rent or housing
,roblcm with any degree Of success
The landlords have won all thu
oattlCs
Decrease One Per Cent.
The survey shows that. while
oods have declined 80 per cent from
,eak war prices, flel II per cent
ind clothing has gone down As per
,ent. rcnts have gone down only
DER cent under peak war prices.
Where wages have been slashed-
md where have they not been slash
H?-thc rent burden placed upon
he heads Of families has been made
ul the heavier! II has amounted,
Il effect. 70 ar actual increase ~
+ .ent, because proportionately a
arger amount OF the monthly I'm
.ome must be devoted to shelter than
Then war wages were available.
To gain some idea OF how big
.ities are in the grip OF the landlord.
pfficial estimates published in New
York from realty operators show
hat each year 1875, 00,000-noarly
he value OF the entire American
wheat crops paid out by wage
arnors for rent. This does not take
INTO account those persons who own
heir own homes.
New York Grants Tax Exemption.
New York state, which has en-
Ioavored, with slight success, 70 limit
landlords to a 20 per cent profit by
egal statute, appears to have gone
ahead OF most states in giving ten
vears' tax exemption to the person
who builds a new home. Under this
Himulus many apartments and tiny
ot homes are being b1ilt in Greater
New York, some s6,500.000 a week
yolng into such work. although Of
'iclal estimates show this IL but half
he sum required weekly to inaugu-
'a'e a building program that will re-
heve congestion and bring down
'ents. Most OF this building is going
On on Long Island.
While this situation obtains, New
York landlords are preparing 10 ask
'urther rent increases in October, ac-
:ording 10 Junius Wilson, who heads
he mayors committee on rent prof
teering Stewart Browne. head Of
he United Real Estate Owners as
ISOLATION, estimate 1t will require
further three years 70 remedy the
New York housing situation.
The situation In New York is gem
eral throughout the east. At wash
ington, where congress tinkers at
regulating District Of Columbia af-
fairs, an anti-rent- -gouging measure,
which has been in force "a year, eX-
pires In October, and realty men are
seeking TO prevent extension OF its
life, At New Haven, Conn, a few
Instances of 10 TO Is per cent rent
reductions are not indicative OF the
general trend while a surrey of
ConnectiCutt cities, where there has
been much unemployment, shows
cents have not, as rule, come down
any Few houses are available for
rent at Philadelphia, the t'city Of
homes In many cities realty op-
orators are forcing tenants TO buy
at peak prices, or Yacate. At Syr-
acuse n. Y. lease renewals have
been negotiated at 10 per cent in
crease over last year. Rents at
syracuse, as in most eastern cities,
have doubled since 1914.
The middle west reflects a sim
liar situation.
Middle West Hard Hit
Al Indianapolis rentals show an
upward trend. For one voluntary
reduction In rents at the Hoosier
metropolis there have been six in
creases, realty operators report. The
usual rentals are $50 for half h
modern double house and $40 for a
hve-room apartment.
Al Cleveland the rates charged by
landlords are the highest ever
known. despite the fact that there
are 10000 vacant houses and apart
LnentS within Greater Cleve.and.
me landlords there are standing to-
setheE 10 keep rents up, despite at
IacHs by local newspapers.
Kansas City reports that rents re-
main nigh and that many houses
ana apartments Will command a
higher price this fall.
The ohio Building Association
IeaEue reports building and loan
associations and banks with $500
100000. intend TO assist home own
CTS ana promote home building.
~ Louis newspapers have cam
ptguod against further increase in
rents following the defeat by the
landlords of an anti-rent profiteer-
ins measure before the state legis-
la.ur..
Springfield, Ill, with $4,000 pop
ulat'n. lacks 1000 homes. Neither
Ieai estate operators nor individuals
H' building homes. Recently ~
Iour'room cottage was vacated. An
aaNtf'.s" ment brought 139 appli-
ySHoHN and the owner rented the
pace io the highest bidder AZ twice
we price he intended. to ask. The
'''ua''nn is typical Of the mid west,
,,, Tar West lacks Houses.
an. Tar west shows housing and
''.'H conditions no better.
n Nt Denver scores OF families are
lying in tents on the outskirts OF
,ne ,n gliy TO escape high rents. Some
T,SlllIra are living in garages AT
i5enYer TO escape the profiteering
'dnulnrd. Denver's rent commits
g., Yi rs making every effort to fore
an increase In rents
Los Angeles's rents remains high
w 10 The influx OF new residents
san francisco was IN good way
START solving the rental situa.