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income has to go to the landlord. As a result he must live in niggardly quarters, often under conditions which are perilous to health and certainly to happiness. fires 

IV. RECREATIONAL SEQUENCE 
   
   Recreation for these workers and their children is provided in part by public parks and playgrounds, but even these facilities are limited. In the thickly settled sections of the city, people often try to get a breath of cool air on a humid night be sitting out on the door stoop. Children, always eager for fun, play hopscotch, ball, or games in the busily trafficed streets. Neighborhood movies are also usually crowded.

V. HOUSING SHORTAGE 

     The Capital has a perrenial housing shortage and with the coming of the New Deal and its thousands of emergency workers and additional employes of other agencies this shortage has been accentuated. 
     Rows and rows of monotonously hideous structures rent for high prices. Restrictions against children and pets prevail in a great many of the decent apartment houses. Once fine town houses which were scenes of grander days are now boarding houses --- with pretentious exteriors and mean interiors. Realtors have tried to capitalize on the housing shortage by building ramshackle structures in the suburbs and better houses elsewhere -- all at prices far beyond what might be regarded as fair. 
 Streets lined with parked cars are manifestations of the crowded conditions. Roomers who try to save money by cooking over a one burner electric hot plate are many.