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Slums Must Go And People Must Be Brought Back% ——Contlnu d from Page 1ed. c - neopie live in them for they have nowhere else to go. House after house has leaky roofs, po r lighting facilities, and no bathroom other than a toilet.“In some cases, one toilet is used by many families. Is it any wonder that the city’s high de~ of tuberculosis victims is largely from this area? This overcrowding and bad housing situation is made worse by the pathetic fact that there is no place other than the front streets in which the garbage isWATCHALBERTSUCHJN 1946placed for the children to play.Supporting this report la thatportion of the survey of the East Chicago public schools made by the committee on field s- vice of the department of education of the University of Chicago relating to the Field school in which the statement ‘i made. ‘The solution of the problem is complicated by •» ‘ 3-ing condition which is a diBgrnce to a modern city favored in many ways as East Chicago is;’“The statement made by the field representative of the American. Council on Race Relations, ‘One thousand units of low rent public housing are ntjL ’ed in the Block-Pennsylvania locality. The slums in this area are the very worst in fhe country;*“The editorial in a recent Issue of the Labor Sentinel which reviews the entire problem and states, ‘In some sections of the city, notably in Calumet ^nd the Block Ave. area, houses are rented that no respectable farmer would use for housing cattle/List of Recommendations“It is recommended;“1. That minority groups must receive all the rights, privileges and comforts that others of ourmore fortunate citizens possess andhave.“2. AH vacant property should be held and zoned for housing purposes only. The action of the common council of our city, in rezoninga portion of o”- '”’',ant land to per mit ^cavy industry, so that the General American Transportation corporation may use it to erect a new bus manufacturing regretted and deplored. Our remaining territory must be held for housing, or Fast Chicago's progress ts doomed and its deteriora tion certain!*‘3. Neighborhood playground? with qualified instructors in charge should be provided throughoutEast Chicago. This cannot be done on a $10,000 appropriation for community lecreation. A greatly increased appropriation should beprovided ear marked and designated for the express purpose of benefiting our children.“4. Immediate steps should be taken to improve the lot of the people living in our slum areas.Want New Playgrounds“A. The pressure of pubHc opin ion and of the health authoritiesshe .Id he brought to bear upon the owners of property in the Block-Pennsylvania area to the end that they improve defects in housing and sanitation.“B. The territory adjacent to Field Sqhool should he converted Into a play ground. This property is owned by the park board.“C. The offer of the Pennsylvania railroad should be accepted; an alley installed on Its property and a fence erected per its stipulation.“5. Our civic officials should devise a definite plan and program of. slum clearance of the Block-Penn-I sylvnnia area and a low cost housing project substituted. It is regretted that about five years ago the United States Housing authority allocated a grant of funds to East Chicago to begin the eradication of its slums, which our civic officials saw fit not to accept. 'Still Have Slums•Today we still have our slums. The boys who left to fight for America — colored, Mexican, white— are now returning to a city so grateful for their sacrifice that it would mo* decent homes forthem to live in.“6. Every encouragement should be given private enterprise to do as much of the housing job as possible. Attention is called to Senate Bill 1342. A bill to provide for a national housing policy and provide for its execution. Introduced in Congress on August 1.This bill declares that the objectives are to be reached by encouraging private e n t e r p r ise to serve as large a part of the total housing need as It can without government assistance and by government assistants where feasible to enable private enterprise to serve larger and lower segments of the market. /“Second, the bill declares that government aid to clear slums and orovi le adequate h^-sing for groups with incomes so low that fhey cannot otherwise be sf»rved be extended to localities which take the responsibility and tnitia-Mve for estimating their needs and demonstrating that they cannot be met solely by private enterprise.
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East Chicago Calumet News
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 19, 1945
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