Few Rooms, But Light, Airy, Spacious Mayor La Guardia's recent attempts to persuade insurance companies to invest more of their funds in private housing projects that will rehabilitate older sections of the city serve to spotlight the housing problems and achievements of recent years.
For housing, privately sponsored as well as Government aided, goes steadily ahead. In the first half of this year, 109 new apartment houses were completed in the city. By the first of January the total for the year probably will have reached 200.
New York now has standing nearly 55,000 apartment houses built since the Tenement Law was passed in 1901. They represent an investment of more than $3,000,000,000. Only in 1933 did construction fail; that year not one new apartment was put up in Manhattan. But all through the years there has been constant change in the very form of the apartment itself.
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