Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1919 — PEOPLE WHO DON’T OWN HOMES SEEM ON INCREASE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE WHO DON’T OWN HOMES SEEM ON INCREASE.

“The United States has fought all her wars to preserve the home, and yet probably 60 per cent of her people are tenants.” This was the text selected by United States Senator Calder in a recent address befor the New York Real Estate association’s convention at New York, urging the necessity of a national campaign for the creation of homes. “The situation is bad enough,” he said, “but what is worse, is the percentage of these rent-payers is growing with each enumeration. In 1901 we were advised that 52 per centoftfiepeopleinAfoericaliyed undeT The rental system. In 1910 that the percentage had increased to 65 per certß and probably the census of- 1920 will show that fully 60 per cent of the people will be classed as tenants. “If it is the case today that but forty people out of a hundred live in their own homes and that the increase, small as it is, will continue, it is fair to conclude that twentyfive years hence less than one-third of the population of the United States will - be v outside the tenant class.’