Word: renting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section devoted to room rents, the Student Council's report on the House Plan presents in admirable fashion the case for narrowing the range of rents. While the larger aspects of the rent problem are not treated thoroughly, the discussion of this particular phase is able and convincing. It has become very evident that the men who can afford the most expensive rooms will not take them when other men obtain rooms only slightly less desirable for half the price. The most pressing need in the Houses has not been for the very cheap rooms but for more rooms...
...Council's proposals, however, do not go far enough, nor does its investigations of the matter. The report apparently assumes throughout that the total income from the room rentals should remain the same. In spite of the reduction of the rents which was put into effect last year, however, it is by no means certain that another decrease is not advisable. The rise in prices generally has done something to place the present charges at a fitting level, or at the least on a level more nearly comparable with the sums charged by other landlords. The privileges of House membership...
...plan to narrow the range of room rents, by eliminating the topmost brackets of the rent scale and raising the prices of the cheapest rooms, is set forth in the report of the 1932-33 Student Council on the House Plan...
...Community Plan Committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to replace 750 slum buildings with 200 new houses; $168,000 to a Raleigh corporation to build apartments convenient to the faculty and students of North Carolina State College. In all cases the new apartments were to rent for $11 per room per month or less...
...Cincinnati Enquirer's "Swap" column appeared this advertisement: ''Have complete course, 'How to become a success,' will swap for room rent...