Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Cost of Destroying a Slum. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Destroying a Slum.

London is spending nearly two million and a half dollars in cleansing and rebuilding one slum. American cities are Just beginning to learn how serious is the cumulative evil of slum construction. They may with profit also leagp how costly is the necessity of slum destruction. The object lesson offered by London may be studied with interest in all our large cities, especially in New York, where, through the efforts of the State Tenement Houie Commission, legislation has with much difficulty been secured which. If enforced, perpetuated, and added to, will tend to prevent the growth of such conditions as London is now compelled to combat.—Century.