World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . ration has createdacute housing conditions. Wliere Negroes have moved into houses which whiteshave vacated they usually pay higher and often excessive rents. To pay these rentsthe houses are crowded with lodgers, creating physical and moral ills. In many southern cities colored people who do not own their homes are housedeither in gun-barrel frame shanties and cottages or in tenement arks of a pigeonhouse type, with little or no sanitary facilities. Unpaved, undrained, unpolicedstree
World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . ration has createdacute housing conditions. Wliere Negroes have moved into houses which whiteshave vacated they usually pay higher and often excessive rents. To pay these rentsthe houses are crowded with lodgers, creating physical and moral ills. In many southern cities colored people who do not own their homes are housedeither in gun-barrel frame shanties and cottages or in tenement arks of a pigeonhouse type, with little or no sanitary facilities. Unpaved, undrained, unpolicedstreets are often the rule even in the best Negro neighborhoods. Housing conditions affect health. It has been estimated that 450,000 Negroes in theSouth are continuously sick, costing them $75,000,000 annually and entailing a lossin earnings of $45,000,000. It is further estimated that 600,000 Negroes of presentpopulation will die of tuberculosis, of whom at least 150,000 could be saved. SELECTED PLANTATION AREA, BOUNDARIES OF COTTON BELT, AND COUNTIES HAVING 50 PER CENT OR MORE OF NEGRO POPULATION: 1910 N. 90 Negro Americans: HOME MISSIONS FIGHT FOR DECENCY IN BOTH northern and southern cities thered hght districts, both white and colored,often touch upon or are located within thesegregated Negro neighborhoods. Withoutadequate police provision and with frequentpolitical connivance, respectable homes of blackfolk often wage battles almost single-handedand alone for protection against these dangers. The saloon has been driven from these neigh-borhoods, but buflfet flats—a sort of high-class combination of gambling parlor, blindtiger and house of assignation—yet flourish inmany cities. RURAL CABINS MANY Negro farm-owners still live in one-room cabins. Often those who possessthe means do not realize the advantages ofliving in good, well-built houses. The Negro plantation tenants and farm-handsmust depend upon the landlord to emancipatethem from the one-room cabin with the lean
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