The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-07-11

IL YEARS TO come the Negro will be faced with the
greatest problem OF housing since the War Be-
tween the States. He has tried to better this prob
lem but II has grown worse every year until the
time has come when a change must be made or the
situation will alleviate itself through outburets oil
"dashes for freedom" that the Negro finds that he
must make II he wants action delayed situations
concerning himself.
Since the New Deal he has paid millions In
taxes for housing but has received little in return
in percentage 10 his population. The FILA set
up TO build and finance homes In communities and
II has denied the Negro altogether the opportunity
TO share in this privilege. There is not single
project financed by FILA for Negroes. yet FILA loans
millions every month 10 finance better homes. Con-
sequently the Negro has but one alternative and
that is TO in old communities that the whites
have vacated. and pay double the rent that the
whites paid while his income is much smaller. 1t Ia
nothing unusual TO pick up any newspaper and turn
to the column: Apartments for Rent. TO see want
ads put in by rental Sharks" reading thus RE
MODELLED APARTMENT HOUSE JUST TURNED
COLORED'. This means that these tenants have
found better living conditions and the Negro is given
what is left
Because OF crowded conditions making great
need for better housing. the Negro will take the
want ad for its word and rush quickly for an ap-
plicaton. He in only to find the run
down conditions that he left. The rental agent
staunchy refuses 10 make the repairs or be respon
sibe for the maintenance because they are Negro
tenants. Unfortunately he is supported by the law
because he is in all secret meetings before anything
is taken 10 the law-making body. Therefore the
Negro has abandon all hopes OF dream home
where he live decent, and has TO continue TO
make the beet OF his home out OF building that
should be completely remodeled destroyed
In order for the Negro TO exist then under these
conditions he must rent every available space in
these rodent infested. yermn filled places. AS a
result We have crime and disease in abundance IL
sections where these youth otherwise would have
made respect able lawabidiug citizens, who could
contribute TO the society in which they live
The FLA was drawn up 10 protect the Real Es-
tate OF It's great expansion in the growth OF over
populated cities. We also have the Home owners
Loan. whose function II is 10 loan to those buying
their homes who haven't immediate financial back
ing Since it's organization many have applied bu.
few have been given consideration being refused on
very technical points. AS result the home owners
are victims OF private Loan Sharks who I'M
mcdiatey will put up the home for auction with no
regard for the amount already paid by the owner.
The large real estate companies will then jump a.
their golden opportunity and buy 1t back at A
"gve away price. Then the high rent returns
again just it intended in the first place.
After the big real estate companies build up the
fine communities in the suburban districts for the
whites al a low scale Of rent they will sell TO the
Negro what the whites vacated for double price
in order to keep him from getting 1t paid for.
Sometimes will find real estate companies
building for both white and colored. The same
houses. however. that they build for whites cost
double for colored and yet the companies. through
technicaltes protected by the law when they
even admit that the specifications for the houses
are the same This forces the Negro TO live always
In an economic depression II all boils down TO the
fact that this economic depression has caused q
great spread OF crime and disease actually forced
on the Negro by white society because OF the acA