Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1919 — Canada Appropriates Large Sum to Lend Municipalities [ARTICLE]

Canada Appropriates Large Sum to Lend Municipalities

A fund of $25,000,000 has been created by the dominion government from which amounts in proportion to population may be borrowed by the governments of the various provinces for application toward bettering the housing conditions of wage earners. . The provincial governments probably will advance the money to municipalities desiring to attempt a betterment of housing conditions of Industrial workers, although the order in council setting aside the fund provides that it may be administered through municipalities or'otherwise.