HOMELESS THOUSANDS
The enormous demand for houses and flats continues unabated, states a London writer. The rare appearance of an' advertisement offering the lease of a small or medium-sized house brings an immediate avulanohes. of offer down upon tho advertiser. Estate agents arq worried to distraction by home-seekers. Porters and caretakers' in large blocks of Hats take refuge in their own apartments and display over tho door-bell the chilling legend, "No Flats!" Out of this unprecedented demand a serious abuse has arisen—the demand by landlords for a premium as a condition of tenancy. Quite respectable sums are demanded ami paid in this way. It is one of tho most vicious of the many forms of profiteering by which we are afflicted, in view of the fact that the persons chiefly affected ■]))• it are men who have just made considerable financial sacrifices to fight for their country. Thert was an attempt'in Parliament to make this practice illegal, but unfortunately it was defeated. '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 209, 29 May 1919, Page 5
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161HOMELESS THOUSANDS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 209, 29 May 1919, Page 5
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