The Archive · 1920

HOUSE PROFITEERING

To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy New:

Sin—If your have 2 space to spare in your esteemed paper I should like to air a question which someone who is much cleverer than usual may be able to answer.

Why is it that certain land and house owners of this Model City (save the mark) have just taken it into their heads to raise the rentals on their properties?

Rents are being raised from 20 to 7 per cent. Is it because the profiteering germ has and is still being made a success both in Europe and America? If there were a large number of houses unoccupied, it would be reasonable to expect such raising of rents to balance the defects, but when every house is occupied, and demand for them is getting greater than ever,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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