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Show HOIFME Many Cheap Cottages Thrown Up in Suburbs for Use in Mild Season PHILADELPHIA, April 21. A campaign cam-paign for the building of homes is Philadelphia's Phil-adelphia's answer to the question of how to keep rents down to a reasonable reason-able basis. The tenant population is in desperate straits for rents have been going higher and higher and no end seems to be in sight. The scramble scram-ble for homes in the suburbs is so acute that when one women moved some of the furniture out of her homo, tho other day, in order to clean the house 25 persons tried to rent it from her within a few hours. To stop the profiteering in rents and homes, several organizations aro attempting to unite on a program of house building to continue for at least six months or until the shortage has been relieved. These organizations include in-clude Association of Tenants, Trade Unions, representatives of the building build-ing trades and mortgaging companies. They have been asked to undertake this work by the department of public welfare. Meanwhile camping ground accessible accessi-ble by street cars is in great demand. Tent manufacturers say more orders have been placed for tents this month than ever before in Philadelphia's history. his-tory. There is an unprecedented amount of building of cheap cottages and bungalows bunga-lows within a radius of 30 miles of Philadelphia to accommodate the rush of tenants that is expected when mild weather comes. Those erected in one community cost about $600 each and are eagerly rented at 350 for the season. sea-son. Old canal boats lying along the Sciiuyklll river are being fitted out as dwellings and families are glad to rent them as temporary homes. oo |