highest rent per room per month; foreign-born an foreign father follow in the order named. Native-bor also show the highest average rent per person per by native-born of foreign father, while foreign-born monthly rent per person less than native-born of n the native-born of foreign father, Germans pay a high per apartment, per room, and per person than do the born show Turkish households having the highest re per month, while Polish show the lowest. Slovaks p rent per month per room than the other races shown ians the lowest rent per room. Irish and German hous siderably higher rent per person than the other race lowest rent per person. It will be observed that a households pay the highest rent per apartment, they atively low rent per person, and though Slovaks pay rent per apartment, they show the highest rent per low rent per person. Poles also report a low rent pe a comparatively high rent per room. Irish and Germ and third, respectively, in the amount of rent paid The range of monthly rentals for apartments is following table, which shows, by general nativity an of household, the percentage of households paying rent per month per apartment: TABLE 51.-Per cent of households paying each specified rent per m by general nativity and race of head of househol Per cent pa Under Under Under T $5. $7.50. $10. S The preceding table shows that of 293 households cent pay under $5 rent per month per apartment, pay under $7.50, 45.7 per cent pay under $10, 74.7 under $12.50, 82.3 per cent pay under $15, and 94.5 under $20 rent per month per apartment. The househ of which are foreign-born show 3.6 per cent paying per month per apartment as contrasted with no househ of which are native whites born of native father and Live-bond tive father h, followed an avent ather. O thly rental Foreign apartment uch higher -outh Ital pay a con Polish the Turkish a compar monthiy nd a very ment and k second partment. thin the - of head specited the heads of which are native-born of foreign father paying under this amount. It should be noted that a very much higher percentage of the households whose heads are of foreign birth pay under $7.50 and under $10 than the households the heads of which are native-born of native father and native-born of foreign father. Of the households the heads of which are foreign-born, those whose heads are Poles and South Italians show a small percentage paying under $5 and a considerably larger per cent paying under $7.50 per month per apartment as contrasted with no households the heads of which are Irish and Turkish paying under these amounts. The households the heads of which are Poles and South Italians show a considerably higher per cent paying under each of the specified amounts than the households the heads of which are either Irish or Turks, while the households the heads of which are Irish show a higher percentage paying under each specified amount of rent per apartment per month than the households the heads of which are Turks. The table next presented shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the percentage of households paying each specified rent per month per room: TABLE 52.-Per cent of households paying each specified rent per month per room, general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS) by [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting. The totals, however, are for all races.] The totals of the preceding table show 98 per cent of households paying under $4 rent per month per room; 92.2 per cent paying under $3; 34.8 per cent paying under $2; while 0.3 per cent pay under $1 rent per month per room. No households among the native-born of native father or native-born of foreign father pay under $1 rent per month per room, while only 0.5 per cent of foreign-born pay under the above-mentioned amount. Native-born of foreign father report the highest percentage of households paying under $2 rent per month per room. Native-born of foreign father also report the highest percentage of households paying under $3 rent per room per month, native-born of native father and foreign-born following in the order named, all reporting over 90 per cent paying under the above mentioned monthly rental. Native-born of native per cent of households paying under $4 rent per native-born of foreign father and foreign-born re lower percentage. Of the foreign-born races, South Italians alone portion of households paying under $1 rent per Polish households show the highest percentage pay per room per month, Irish follow with a slightly while South Italian and Turkish households s smaller proportions than the two races first named. per cent of households paying under $3 rent per South Italian, and Polish following in the order na over 90 per cent. All of the foreign-born races sho households paying under $4 per room per month, e show a slightly lower percentage. The real situation relative to congestion is set fort table. Crowding within the households is indicated portion of households having a low-rent payment table shows, by general nativity and race of head of cent of households paying each specified rent per m TABLE 53. Per cent of households paying each specified rent per general nativity and race of head of household. [This table includes only races with 20 or more households reporting. The totals. Pe The preceding table shows that 9.2 per cent of studied pay under $1 rent per month per person, 52 under $2 per person, 78.5 per cent under $3, and 90.1 $4 rent per month per person. Foreign-born report per cent of households paying each specified rent per son than native-born of foreign father. It will be observed that a very small percentage of foreign father pay under $1 per month per person, holds of native-born of native father pay under this a Of the foreign-born no households the heads of pay under $1 rent per month per person, while the I each following specified monthly rate is low as compared with the other races given. Polish households show a very high comparative percentage paying under $1 per month per person, while South Italians and Turks show 100 per cent paying under $4 per month per person and Irish only 86.4 per cent. BOARDERS AND LODGERS. In the following series of tables the extent of the practice of keeping boarders and lodgers and its effect upon living arrangements is set forth. The first table presented shows, by general nativity and race of head of household, the number and per cent of households keeping boarders or lodgers. TABLE 54.-Number and per cent of households keeping boarders or lodgers, by general nativity and race of head of household. (STUDY OF HOUSEHOLDS.) [Information relating to boarders or lodgers covers only immediate time of taking schedule, and not the entire year. Boarders are persons who receive both board and lodging.] re for all races, Native-born of native father, White.. Native-born of foreign-father, by race of father: ུ་ $3. Under $ 74.1 Irish... Foreign-born: Armenian. German. Greek. Irish. Italian, South. Lithuanian. Polish. Slovak. Syrian. Turkish. 84 Grand total. 3 100: Total foreign-born. Total native-born.. Total native-born of foreign father. seholds nt par t under higher er per Dorn of house Irish Daying a Not computed, owing to small number involved. The above table shows that of the 362 households studied, 26.5 per cent keep boarders or lodgers, the foreign-born reporting a considerably larger percentage than the native-born of foreign father and a very much larger percentage than the whites native-born of native father. Among the foreign-born it will be noted that the Slovaks, with 50 per cent keeping boarders or lodgers, show a slightly larger proportion than the South Italians or Poles and a much larger percentage than the Germans or Irish, the last named reporting only 17.1 per cent. Among the native-born of foreign father, it will be noted that the Irish report a much larger proportion keeping boarders or lodgers than do the Germans, the proportion of Germans being slightly in excess of the proportion shown by the whites nativeborn of native father. The following table shows, by general nativity household, the average number of boarders or lod The averages are computed (1) upon the total nu studied and (2) on the number of households k lodgers. TABLE 55.-Average number of boarders or lodgers per househ and race of head of household. 18 95 259 a Not computed, owing to small number involved. Of 362 households, 96 are keeping 284 boarders ar equals 78 boarders and lodgers to each 100 households or lodgers to each household of the total number of ing boarders or lodgers. Of the households keepin foreign-born average over 3 boarders or lodgers per with the native-born of native father the average is Slovaks and the South Italians average over 3 boa per household in the households that keep boarders the average of the Poles is over 2 boarders or lodger |