Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — For Better Housing of Aliens. [ARTICLE]

For Better Housing of Aliens.

Prizes aggregating $2,100 have been offered by the National Americanization committee in a contest for plans for the housing of immigrants in industrial towns. Two groups of prizes are offered. The first covers plans for the housing of workmen in industrial communities not exceeding a population of 35,000. Entries may include designs for single family houses, combined family and lodging houses which, will permit separation of the family from the lodgers or boarding houses or community dwellings for numbers of single men or of single women. The first prize in this group is SI,OOO, the second SSOO and the third, fourth and fifth SIOO each. Competitors are to assume that the community is a new one produced by a new industry —most of the workmen to be needed permanently and the rest, as construction gangs, from two to five years only. Welfare of the tenant and low cost are the two important considerations urged by the committee. Wages of the workmen are assumed to be from. $2 a day to S2O a week. The second group of prizes is offered for a satisfactory substitute for the derailed freight and cattle cars now used to house construction gangs on railways. In this group the first prize is S2OO and the second prize SIOO.