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- 2 out of 3 families
earning $6,000 or less
pay more than 25% of
their income to their land
lord.

- 2 out of 5 families with incomes
less than $6,000 pay more
than 35%

- 70% of the households
with women over 65 paid
over 35%

- Approx. 25 million inner city
houses are below city code.

- In 1944, Nathan Straus, first
Chairman of the U.S. Housing
Authority, wrote that public
housing could be expanded
"so that, in a few years, every
American family will have a health-
ful + liveable home.

Over 25 years later, one-sixth
of the nation still lives in dangerous,
sub-standard slum housing.