| Show low income families use housing projects washington nearly half of the families who live in the low rent housing projects of the united states housing authority have incomes 0 of f a day or less for these families that or less the price of a decent hotel room to most americans must cover the daily cost of food rent clothes and all the other things it takes to live in some cases that daily income averages out to little more than a dollar A survey of the incomes of more than tenant families released by USHA shows that per cent earn less than a year in the case of 26 per cent of the families the annual income is actually under only 7 per cent of the families with many mouths to feed and in areas of unusually high living costs have incomes of as much as a month according to USHA administrator nathan straus with USHA housing developments being completed at a rapid rate 1 5 americans in the low income groups are moving in each month under the law tenants are restricted to tho those se whose incomes are no more than alv five e times the amount of the rent except in cases of very large families which may have an income amounting to six times the rent |
