requiring immediate attention, or the elimination of outside privies. As of midApril 1955, all but about 12 of these major hazards and violations had been eliminated and action is underway to wipe out the remaining non-code-compliance cases before the end of this year.

You may also be interested in some deatails of what realtor Peter Turchon, of Boston, has personally accomplished in providing low-cost homes through rehabilitation. He was cited by a national trade publication as the one person "who has done more to prove that old houses have value, than almost any other man." During the 29 years he has been in the home-improvement business, his firm has injected new economic life into literally thousands of dwellings. He buys, rehabilitates, and sells an average of 500 homes each year. His 7 sales offices, 26 salesmen, and multi-million-dollar business provide ample proof that outdated homes can be brought up to modern living standards for even the low-income families. In his latest sales book of property listings, he displays modernized homes at prices ranging from $4,900 (total cost for a 2-family structure) to $29,000 for a 4-family apartment and 4 stores. In between are 17 one-family houses with an average price, after rehabilitation, of $7,963; 32 two-family buildings averaging $9,090; 38 three-family houses at $10,989; six four-family houses at $12,180.

We have some very good "before" and "after" photographs of dwelling units that have been rehabilitated for the low-income group. If you would care to see some of these and pick a few for your possible use on the Hill, let me know and I will be glad to go over them with you.

Sincerely,

CHARLES T. STEWART, Secretary.

APPENDIX D

Federal income-tax liabilities, 1953—By income distribution and size of families

1 The total tax levy of the $0-$4,000 income group is $2,683,000,000, but this includes unattached individuals. $2,000,000,000 tax levy represents a reasonable estimate of family tax liability in this income group. Source: March 1955, Survey of Current Business, U. S. Department of Commerce.

APPENDIX E

Distribution of family personal income in 1950 dollars for families and unattached individuals before Federal taxes

1953. 1949.

APPENDIX F

19.5

15. 1

8.0

29.2

19.9

15.3

20.7

18.5

16.5

12.3

15.7

17.5

81.7

69.2

57.3

15.8

27.4

37.5

Change in the number of families, by income class, 1949–531

1 Income distribution data are not yet available for 1954. The income distribution is taken from the Federal Reserve Bulletin, July 1954, p. 701; the figure for the total number of families is based on Census release of December 20, 1954, and p. 576 of the Federal Reserve Bulletin, June 1954. The figures are, of course, rough, but indicative of the facts.

APPENDIX G

Distribution of income after Federal taxes for families and unattached individuals (1950 dollars)

Projected number of households and after-taxes income distribution, 1950–65

APPENDIX I

Public housing eligibility of families currently housed in urban renewal areas (compiled from HHFA-URA new releases, January 11 through May 13)

Number of ineligible (overincome) tenants in low-rent housing projects, Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, by quarters

APPENDIX K

Number of families living in permanent low-rent housing, by occupation and

TEN-YEAR SEARCH FOR A HOME ENDS-COUPLE AND 5 CHILDREN LEAVE UNHEATED TENEMENT FOR CITY PROJECT APARTMENT-ONE OF 1,500 RELOCATED—ARMY VETERAN FOUND LOTS OF RENTALS, BUT THEY WERE BARRED TO LARGE FAMILY

By Emma Harrison

When Frank Hughes got out of the Army, he and his wife Dorothy began to look for an apartment. Now, some 10 years and 5 children later, they have found 1.

The Hughes family's move from a crowded, damp, unheated Brooklyn tenement back to the twentieth century occurred when their application for city housing was accepted. They took possession of a modern five-room apartment in Jefferson Park Houses, 330 East 115th Street.

When the mammoth federally aided project is completed, the Hughes family will be 1 of 1,500 families relocated from what the City Housing Authority calls substandard housing. But being one of an impressive statistic doesn't begin to reveal the major changes being made in the lives of these families.

To note that the Hughes family is now confronted with an abundance of heat, hot water, and living space would be to oversimplify the meaning of that change. In the 10 years since the war, the Hughes family, like so many others, lived in varying degrees of makeshift and discomfort. Seven of these were spent in a sunless, stuffy four-room flat in the West Sixties. The last straw in that Occupancy was the appearance of a rat. The Hugheses fled to another inadequate apartment in the Rockaways.

RENT IS DOUBLED

When the resort season rolled around and the rent was doubled to $125, the post office transportation clerk and his family had to move in with relativesin two groups. Two of the young girls were boarded out at $30 a week. One went to an aunt in Kingston.

"We could have got lots of places without the children, but when you say you have five, people think you're crazy," said Mrs. Hughes, explaining why the next refuge was a heatless, hot-waterless tenement on Brooklyn's Glen Street.

The 7 Hugheses, including the new baby, Frank, Jr., crammed themselves into 3 of its 4 tiny rooms. The fourth, a mere cubbyhole, was uninhabitable because of dampness.

The first winter was heatless. Water was heated sparingly by a rickety gas water heater that the parents distrusted. Because the baby burned himself on the unguarded heater, Mrs. Hughes had to wash dishes only when he was asleep. Life was one constant head cold. In rainy weather, water streamed down the walls. Major expenditures added measurably to the $29.10 rent. A kitchen