New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27
Anxious to Learn the Cost of Building Small Home
Suggestions Offered for
Houses To Be Erected
Plan 10 Construct Several Dwellings for Tribune
Readers Requirements to Determine What the
Public Needs Wins Hearty Approval

s--=if yop can determine il you will he
/ forever hlessed--the most economical
/ heating plant for small house.
g MAY your venture have all the suc-
cess which you wishf it, it5certaiply
4 deserves 1t. J.R. Fl.
against Large Initial Payment
/ 10 the Real Estate Editor of The
I 4 Tribune
/ Sir: Years ago. when the writer first
/ read of the Sage Foundation plans she
from fat dwelling in the form Of a
home in the suburbs, room for the kid
/ dies and a garden for daddy TO dig, at
t last a place. not for the laborer but for
1 the man whose gray matter Is not acute
enough TO command a salary - Just
wages, say $50 to $40 week. Alas and
alacki 1t developed into a home center
| for very high saiaricd architects,
/ lawyers and left the average man still
/ searching for his icwpriced home.
/ AS the average American family is
limited to four persons-~fathcr, mother,
son and daughterit needs consist Of a
! home with living room, dining room,
| kitchen and four bedrooms and bath
| seven rooms. Two-storied houses seem
| better to the housewife as entailiGg less
| labor; brick or stuccc, requiring prob
ably less repair and being more desired
| than frame. There should not be too
| large an initial payment and $50 to $50
/ a month the monthly payment after
ward. 1t should be located in neigh
Eborhood not too far from the center of
ton should not be costly ands these
home owners are not automobile own
ers.. J. G. G.
| Homes for Working People
| To the Real Estate Editor of The
Tribune.
| Sir: The people who rent houses in
| New York City and who have been
/ troubled by the high cost of living,
! which is based upon the cost of hous-
| ing, are under obligation to The New
| York Tribune for the interest it has
| taken in this matter, and the many
plans presented in your Sunday issue
| for the last weeks.
/ The writer's connection with the i'm
proved housing situation in New York
! during the last two and one-half years
leads to the conclusion that the houses
required for the everyday working
people should be two and one-half
stories with basement, and should cost
with lots 1.-TWO lots each 20X100 feet),
between $4,000 and $500. This gives
six rooms with bath, steam heat and
other necessary conveniences.
Recent improvements in house con-
struction and in the conyeniences now
supplied the housekeeper or housewife,
make such dwellings attractive homes
for the working people, and relieve
them from the rent collector each
month, as the payments made each
mortgage, will not exceed what would
have cost monthly rental in the city
apartment.
Long Island seems TO be the favored
district, and Jamaica, with its railroad
facilities, Long Island express trains,
etc, offers inducements for people look
ing for moderate priced homes.
I thank The Tribune for its efforts to
relieve the housing situation and wish
it success in this venture.-Chas. F.
! Pierce.
What Cost Home to Buy
To the Real Estate Editor Of The
Tribune.
Sir; l have read your paper for
years and more especially of late your
| financial and real estate sections.
In your effort to place homes as
models or examples at various prices
and of different designs think it
should first be brought out who are the
persons that may own a home-that is,
say, starting at the $1,000 year man,
| then $4,000 year man, and decide
| just what they can expect. If these
| two salaried persons cannot afford q
| home then they should know it, but
| there are thousands, yes, the great ma
iority of workers who earn from 81 500
| to $4,000 per year. These are the peo-
! pie who want homes.
| AS for the $4,000 year man and up
can't see what help he needs except
| the ordinary means of observation to
decide which house best suits him, for
| there are houses unnumbered for this
| class.
! think many thousands are like my
self, who own 25-foot lot in the city
and have $500 to $1,000 for an initial
payment on $4,000 salary.
My idea for this class is either all
frame or stucco over hollow cement
blocks, with five rooms, two floors,
three rooms down stairs and one large
bedroom with child's room adjoining
with sliding door and individually ven
tiiated, then fair size bedroom with
bathroom for the second floor, hot air
pipe furnace. The price should not
exceed $4,000.
The settlement Of government houses
lelther the slx-room attached or six
room detached) at New Brunswick. N.
j., looks pretty good to the writer to
suit this middle class.
he best sections of the citv for
general clean atmosphere and not in
| dustrlally contaminated is the West
Bronx, preferably that long high strip
from the Hudson monument to the city
line, whic his parallel to and west Of
the van CortlanSt Park subway.
AS to type and size for 25-foot
| lot would say q Colonial IS it. x 36 #
| or perhaps Is # 3s #.
GUSTAVE J. SODERBERG.
1 Long island City.
PIhns $4,000 Home
10 the Real Estate Editor Of The
Tribune
Sir: The building plan announced
N the Tribune last Sunday is Of III +.
most interest, as we hope to build as
soon as we can get what we want for
the amount we want to pay.
4. Brick house, with tile roof .
Eight rooms -four bed and one studvg
and 2 baths. s. Two floors or More 4
ABOUT $4,000. 5. Garage for two cars
ana space above for storage. 6. Cold
MAI style house preferred, or semi
bungalow. Z. Within walking distance
OF bathing beach. 8. Vacuum -cIeaner
! installed ~ cellar $. Clothes SHIRE n
cellar. 10. Porches up stairs and down
mot inelosed9. II. Covered drive On
side of house -
4 We realize that the above cannot be