New Britain herald., 1928-07-28
UP TO DATE HOMES
 GAIN PREFERENCE
Vacant Apartments in This City
 Are Of Older Type

New Britain people are demanding better homes. This statement, borne out by survey of tenement de- mands by the Herald. is corroborat- cd by real state dealers. Despite the bugaboo of hard times" and the knowledge that there are many Va cant tenements in the city, an accu- rate survey shows that the major ity of these vacancies are in homes of the cheaper type. which have been vacated because of the tendency on the part of young married couples to build or buy their own homes.
 According to survey last week in New Britain. of the 1929 vacant tenements, only 12e were of the bet ter type. Of these 1c2 are included g apartments in the new apartment house on Court street. which is not yet occupied. and 2l in the new Cohn building, not yet completed. bringing the total available rents of the better grade down to 65 aa against 907 of the cheaper type.
 Of the remaining 65 tenements va cant, it is reported that practically all are recently built and will be oc- cupied within short time. The re- maining S07 are of the type which it is expected will be worked over and remodeled to suit the demands of the more fastidious generation.
 This estimate is absolutely accu- rate" said Adolph Carlson. president of the New Britain Real Estate board. People today are demand ing the best they can get. It is cas- fer to rent a place with improve ments and modern heating for $4l a month than it is to rent one not quite so modern and up to date"
 Another change now beginning which has been noticed is q decided drift back 10 these renovated places by couples who have been doubling up." The head of one public utilities corporation in the city recently esti- mated the number of vacant rents in the city to be between 700 and
 
 tion," he hastened to say. "It is duo 10 the fact that many couples have moved in with their parents tenn porarily, and now are showing 8 ten- dency to go housekeeping by them- selves. When these couples go back to living by themselves. there will he no surplus of rents in the city,
 The Herald survey shows a drift back to the renovated tenements which rent for slightly less than the newer homes. indicating that the move is toward reduction of the total vacancies.
 Another condition observed Is that the majority of the empty tenementt are in the older sections of the city and that the new sections show the least vacancies.
 In the Belvidere section there are but five vacancies and these are new homes, built for sale. These figure, do not cover the outlying streets but include practically every street which is built up and has sidewalks
 The bare statement that New Brit. ain has more than Q thousand vacant tenements, in itself and without ex. planation, seems rather discourag- ing, until it is known that within the past eight or 10 years there have been more than 5000 new tene- mentx constructed, which throws an entirely different light on the whole situation.
 The survey of streets and empty tenements is given as follows:
 Old New Southeast side of Walnut
 Hill park ............ Streets between Glen, Lin-
 wood, Shuttle Meadow
 avenue and Winthrop 3 Streets between the rail-
 road and the east end Of
 Walnut Hill park as far
 west as Liberty street Is Beaver Broad. Lafayette
 and part of Main ...... S2 Washington. north end of
 Beaver, Clark and Sex
 lull Maple, Whiting, Bassett
 and part Of So. Main .. o4 Chestnut, Linden and Bel
 den .... .......... Harrison and Steele, south
 to shuttle Meadow club Business section ..... II Business section and part
 of Arch street ........ 27 Grove to Booth and sec
 tion between ......... 93 Park. F'airview and adja-
 cent part of Stanley =. 70 IS High and streets north to
 Osgood avenue ........ 27 l East Main, Smalley and
 streets between to East 24 2 Cherry. South Main, Brook
 and Mill .............. 4c From post office west be-
 tween West Main and
 Hart and Lincoln ....