Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — A Community of Rents. [ARTICLE]

A Community of Rents.

Some people live in New York, others exist. It is written that a majority of our citizens never owned a home. They live in rented flats or houses all their lives, and do not know the meaning of possession. Many millionaires dwell in hired residences. Their homes are in other states, but they must be in Fifth avenue during the social season, and they must keep house. Philadelphia has been spoken of as a “community of homes.” New York is a community of rents. More than half of our people don’t know what to pay taxes! Their obligations of citizenship are settled by the landlord, who takes everything out In the rent. We are becoming a characterless mob. —New York Press.