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Excerpt from Harlem River Houses: Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
To a pronounced degree, housing in Harlem is of the old-law tenement type, with all this means in lack of air, light, and sanitation. Many of the rooms have plenty of space for sleeping bunks, because their walls are punctuated by no windows whatsoever. These dank grottoes effectively prop agate, among other crops, the sturdier germs of ravaging disease.
The most characteristic factor of Negro housing, as distinguished from white, is the relatively huge proportion of income which rent extorts. The theoretical ideal proportion of rent to income, of 20 to 25 percent, means nothing to these people who are forced to spend up to even 50 percent of normal earnings for shelter.
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