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[[image - black & white photograph of a Negro woman and three children in a cramped room with laundry hanging about]]

This, too, is the city, the "kitchenette," home in one room. In 1937 the United States Government started a slum-clearance program. The object was to provide decent homes for poor people. Of the 121,500 homes contracted for in city areas, approximately 40,600 are or will be occupied by Negro tenants. Although Negroes are about one-tenth of the population, the Government is assigning them about one-third of the new homes--because our need is greater.