Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-20 | Page 6 | Stir Caused by Housing Probe

STIR ISTIR CAUSED BY HOUSING PROBE I I Red Cross Officer Reveals I Living Conditi Conditions in I Pocatello I herald S Special l Ida a. a Fob IS a. Investigation I I tion of living conditions con conducted b by authorities to today a revealed astounding circumstances under which hundreds of oJ residents in In several parts of ot the ell city ar are existing according to MIss Doroth Dorothy Dorothy Doro Doro- th thy W Wysor field representative U e of the tho northwestern division of or tho the Cross The under which these people live II she declared seem hardly possible In any civilized cJ community On several of oC the main streets there thero are small shacks shack unworthy 0 o of tho the name o of ofa ofa a house and wholly unfit h In iii which to toivo live ivo renting at prices ranging from 15 15 to 20 O a month With Ith no conI connections connections con con- I no running water and practically practically no sanitation of or an any description two three and sometimes four families aro are existing crowded together These conditions condition according to authorities au au- au- au have havo existed for some time but In recent years the the- rents havo hao been so high that thaL the occupants have h had no funds left from Crom their limited Incomes to care for their bodily cleanliness or dress The Tho investigation In has aroused such a feeling of at pit pity among tho people peo pl plc that legislation for the betterment of or these places will bo be sought