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Show iraur IS REENIN ROME City of 660,000 Needs 100,. 000 More Rooms ROME. Oct. 14. The "nouns' hunger, hun-ger, aa the lack of dwellings Is called In Italian, la lncreaslnv tn Rome. Accord Ac-cord Ins; to a statement by Dr. Ivai- mondl. municipal councilor. Home, a cHy of $b0.0HI Inhabitants, needs 100.-000 100.-000 mora rooms to house its population. popula-tion. Tha surplus of people fa now living; In unhealthy and Immoral conditions, ! Dr. Kalmondl says. There are some j quarters of the city where each room j t Is occupied by from six to eight people I ! in the greatest promiscuity, and at i Porta Matron la, one of the poorest districts dis-tricts of Koine, twenty-eight persons are living In three rooms. Also at tha very gates of Roma a i portion of tha population, haa revert- j ed to tha -troglodytlo period and lives i In grottoes excavated In the bills, while others have built straw huts to bouse . their families. This state of affairs Is a consequence of tha war. On account of the line j In the price of building materials, ths construction of houses ceased practi-l practi-l cully entirely for about eight years. The government haa tried to meet the situation by Appropriating $00,000.000 ' lire (ai par Sl-.tR.v.QOW to be loaned i at S per cent to workmen, civil eerv-Isnta, eerv-Isnta, etc, for the purporte of home building. Such an amount, however. Its not enough, according to r. Rai-1 Rai-1 mondl. for It provides only for the con-(tr con-(tr ii. tlon of about 10,000 rooms. This, (together with 10,000 rooms, which are I being built by private individuals wtth-i wtth-i out state subsidy, makes a total of 40.-00 40.-00 rooms, leaving 0.000 more to be built within the next three years. A further subs.dy of e00.000.0v0 lire la I bvlnsr asliated. |