(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Sanitary, healthful and comfortable apartments to rent for $25 or less a month to working people on the East Side of New York will be provided by a bill soon to be introduced in the Legisuature.
This is the first step toward putting Governor Smith’s housing program into practical effect.
Plans are already under way for the first of the model tenements to be authorized by this measure. It will be built with a 180-foot front on Goerck Street near Stanton Street. About 120 families will be accommodated in four room apartments renting at the rate of $6 a room a month.
The bill known as the Downing-Steingut bill, creates the Fred L. Lavenburg foundation of $1,000,000 which is to carry out the work. Mr. Lavenburg has given $750,000 in money and the plot on Goerck Street to start the work. Mr. Lavenburg is the brother-in-law of the late Oscar Straus.
The measure names as incorporators of the foundation Benjamin Straus, Edmund E. Wise. Arthur E. Somers, Hugo Blumenthal, Myron Falk, Benjamin Tuska, Boyden S. Sparks, Alexander M. Bing, Carl S. Stein and Fred L. Lavenburg. It is planned to build a similar house in Brooklyn.
No return or interest is expected on the investment. Money realized from rent will be used for operation and upkeep. If there is a surplus the rents will be reduced.
COMMUNICATION TO THE EDITOR
Sir:
I am in receipt of the Index of the “Jewish Daily Bulietin,” which you were kind enough to send me and for which I am enclosing my check.
I have looked through it and readily recognize that it is a very valuable publication that can be useful to every one who is interested in any form of Jewish life. I am sure that our Religious Schools, and more especially, the numerous adult classes in our Synagogues and communal institutions will find your Index an indispensable reference book. I congratulate you on the wisdom and foresight which prompted such a publication.
RABBI SAMUEL FRIEDMAN.
Congregation Beth-El.
Philadelphia, Jan. ?, 1927.
P. S.–Please send a copy of the Index to our Religious School Library.
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