NEW YORK INQUIRY
DOLE FAMILIES IN HOTELS 37 REPORTED INVOLVED flO a.m.i NEW YORK. May 23. A further case of the Welfare Department installing a family on the city relief in an expensive mid-Manhattan Hotel sui ! c was disclosed yesterday. This is the fourth similar case discovered since it was revealed that the department was providing a suite, with a maid service, in an ho'el just off Fifth Avenue for a husband, wife and five children at a total cost of G4O dollars monthly. It is understood that 37 families are at pretent housed in mid-town hotels as recipients of home relief. One of these families, it is reported, had made a down payment on a motor-car while on the dole. The Welfare Department sr-ys the families are housed in hotels because it is virtually imposs : ble to obtain low or even medium-priced housing. The Mayor. Mr. William O'Dwyer, has ordered an inquiry into the department’s policies.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 6
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157NEW YORK INQUIRY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 24 May 1947, Page 6
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