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Show I HOUSING SURVEY ; FORUSJRIIITED F Preliminary work on a housing surrey to start la Salt Lake City next week was under wsy Tues-;. Tues-;. day m the offices of the sanitary division of the dty board of health, j Several WPA workers were busy I . mimeographing forms to be used i by field workers. 1 Seventy-five workers will be In j the field when the survey Is In i full swing. .It will require ap- proximately three months to com- f plete the census. J The undertaking Is sponsored Jointly by Salt Lake City and the i ' . WPA and when complete will ahow the centers of population and the availability of those cen- j ters to schools, roads and enter-! enter-! talnment. iAIso to be shown will be the percentage per-centage of persons living In apart-, apart-, menu, duplex residence and single i dwellings, as well as the amount of rent paid by the residents compared com-pared with their Incomes. ' Overcrowding In residences with out bath tubs or other modern plumbing facilities also will be tabulated. Any future 'slum clearance" work would probably be based on the survey. The city commission last June appropriated (2900 to help defray the city's cost of the undertaking. |