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1276 An American Dilemma
what greater freedom in the case of ‘higher** library services than there is in respect fo
the “popular” public libraries.
The Rosenwald Fund has tried to improve the situation by supplying money on a
matching basis for the extension of library service. But only 1 1 counties cooperated
between 1930 and 1935 and even they were quite discriminating in the distribution of
these funds between Negroes and whites.*
Federal Works Agency, Second Annual Refort (1941), pp. 116, 191, 315 and
460.
Ibid,y pp. 121-125.
Not only do real property taxes increase housing expenses for the consumer in a
way which must be particularly burdensome for low income families; even more Impor-
tant, perhaps, is the fact that they must make investments in housing more risky than
they otherwise would be. For what they really mean is that states, counties, and munici-
palities have a first mortgage on all real estate, leaving less room and less security for
other mortgages, and making the owner’s equity much more likely to fluctuate in value
than would have been the case if taxes were on income only.
Suffice it to say that, in 1 940, when most of the building construction was of
single family homes, 171,440 new small homes, or 40 per cent of all new dwellings in
this category, in nonfarm areas were covered by F.H.A. insurance. (U.S. Federal
Housing Administration, Seventh Annual Refort [1941], pp. 6 and 15.) In 1941,
218,035 new small homes, or 41 per cent of new single family homes, were covered
by F.H.A. insurance. (U.S. Federal Housing Administration, Eighth Annual Refort
[1942], p. 3.)
U.S. Federal Housing Administration, Seventh Annual Refort (1941), pp. 15
and 77. See also Sterner and Associates, of, cit,^ p. 314.
Sterner and Associates, of, cit,y p. 313. See also U.S. Federal Housing Admin-
istration, Successful Subdivisions^ Planning Bulletin No. i (1940); and National
Association of Housing Officials, Housing Yearbook (1940), pp. 161-162.
U.S. Federal Housing Administration, Underzvriting Manual (1938), par. 935.
lbid,y par. 980.
Idem,
Corienne K. Robinson, F’ederal Public Housing Authority, letter (August 28,
1942). It should be noted, in addition, that a considerable number of projects orig-
inally intended for low income families were turned over to defense workers for the
duration of the War. Concerning the Negro’s share in the war housing program, see
Chapter 19.
®®One New York project, for instance, the South Jamaica Houses, has 1,050 Negro
and 459 white residents thus intermingled. The John Jay Homes in Springfield, Illinois,
also have about 1 00 Negro and 400 white families living without any segregation. The
experiences, so far, have been good; there have been extremely few expressions of bad
interracial feeling. (New York Herald TribunCy [June 10, 1942J; William M.
Ashby, “No Jim Crow in Springfield Federal Housing,” Offortunity [June, 1942],
pp. 170-171; and Sterner and Associates, of, cit,y p. 320.) This may be due, in part,
to the fact that the white inhabitants in such projects are often Italians, Poles, and
‘Louis R. Wilson and Edward A. Wight, County Library Service in the South (1935),
pp. 67-96; cited by Doxey A. Wilkerson, Special Problems of Negro Education (i939)>
pp. 148-149.
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