little suites, two rooms and bath, can be rented at a profit to the owner, at $3 per week, even in the present high cost of labor and material. The employer wants to hold his employees; he does not in some instances care so much whether they are comfortable or not, but he really would like to keep them from floating about. A good way is to anchor them by making them comfortable. Why does he not try that? He has never thought deeply
apartments morally pure with groups of young men in some and girls in others? Well, how do you keep your hotels and present makeshifts pure? The answer is in the spirit in which it is done and the character of the management. Some very unanswerable questions were put to me in 1911 and 1912 when we were erecting the John Jay dwellings on East Seventy-seventh Street, New York City. Now all these questions have answered themselves, and
about an economic open stair dwelling. He has built many houses at the rate of $4,000 or $5,000 per family or more, and his cash is exhausted or he believes that he has done enough, and that it is time for someone else to follow his example. What do these economic open stair dwellings cost? From $1,100 to $2,000 per family, and so the money goes twice or four times as far.
How does the writer know so much about it? He has done nothing else but study and try, and try again, and study out this one matter and its relation to the employer of labor. How can you keep such
it is interesting to note that with 281 families there are 19 nationalities, and 52 apartments are rented to groups of girls who prefer to keep house in the little suites than to be in boarding houses and hotels or to crowd in unsuitable places with other families.
Can the industrial town do the same? Would you suggest such a thing where land is cheap? Would people live in such things in the country? These are a few of the questions put to me weekly. The answers I make do not seem to take root, or we would see these profit-producing, health-promoting types springing up all over, instead of the expen
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apartments morally pure with groups of young men in some and girls in others? Well, how do you keep your hotels and present makeshifts pure? The answer is in the spirit in which it is done and the character of the management. Some very unanswerable questions were put to me in 1911 and 1912 when we were erecting the John Jay dwellings on East Seventy-seventh Street, New York City. Now all these questions have answered themselves, and
about an economic open stair dwelling. He has built many houses at the rate of $4,000 or $5,000 per family or more, and his cash is exhausted or he believes that he has done enough, and that it is time for someone else to follow his example. What do these economic open stair dwellings cost? From $1,100 to $2,000 per family, and so the money goes twice or four times as far.
How does the writer know so much about it? He has done nothing else but study and try, and try again, and study out this one matter and its relation to the employer of labor. How can you keep such
it is interesting to note that with 281 families there are 19 nationalities, and 52 apartments are rented to groups of girls who prefer to keep house in the little suites than to be in boarding houses and hotels or to crowd in unsuitable places with other families.
Can the industrial town do the same? Would you suggest such a thing where land is cheap? Would people live in such things in the country? These are a few of the questions put to me weekly. The answers I make do not seem to take root, or we would see these profit-producing, health-promoting types springing up all over, instead of the expen
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