Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penthouses in hilly San Francisco, perhaps because of the excellent view obtained from the average apartment. One of the penthouses is renting at $300 against $450. and another has been leased to a speakeasy. Realtors fear the proposed trans-Bay bridges may increase commuting. Dwellings are 32% vacant in San Francisco. Rentals in the cheaper districts north of Market Street ("The Slot") run about $25 for a two-room apartment, a 10% reduction. Similar reductions prevail in the wooden, stucco-faced buildings on the Marina, where stood the be jeweled buildings of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition...
...result of 1932's dwelling trend in Manhattan has been an increase in vacant large apartments, a sharp decrease in their cost. There has also been an unusually big spread between quoted prices and what landlords will really accept. One reason for this is the unwillingness of landlords to let tenants know prices have come down in their buildings. Asked prices for the average two-to six-room apartment in Manhattan are down from 10% to 40% from 1929, and further 10% to 15% reductions have been obtainable. Reductions in asked prices since 1929 include the following typical examples...
...former price of $300. In the cheaper apartments of from $50 to $80 a month there is only a 7% vacancy. The white-collar Lawndale district has vacancies of 5% against 16% in the cheaper '"Canal" section. Owned residences (31% of Chicagoans own their homes) are 7% vacant. A notable 1932 trend: families unable to place their children in private schools as they used to do have moved to the country rather than send their children to Chicago's institutions...
...moving day. "Own-your-own-home" building & loan associations have thrived for 75 years, there is very little home-renting. Those that are rented are about 15% cheaper than two years ago, with better class apartments 20% lower. Only 5.2% of the homes in the city are vacant, against 12% in the suburbs. If all the 26,000 families that lived with other families went off to live alone, 2,400 houses would have to be erected in a hurry...
...scale of room rents will remain the same as last year, averaging about $235. In view of the slightly decreased enrolment which will leave a few rooms in the dormitories vacant a few members of other departments of the University will be admitted...