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Title: Exterior, three story slum dwelling
Alternative Title: Housing Authority Photo Collection;
Creator: Nadel, Leonard
Contributor: This is a reproduction made from the original print owned by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: This three story slum dwelling has 12 apartments. Three room apartments rent for $18-$22 per month including utilities and four room apartments rent for $26 per month. Rents were raised from $18 to $22 as Rent Control ended. Rooms average about 8'x6' each, baths and toilets are outside. About 6 children reside in this building.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00033571
Housing Authority Collection;
GPC_b28_f4; A-004-105.30 4x5
CARL0000035594
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1071
Subject: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Poor families--California--Los Angeles
Low-income housing--California--Los Angeles
Poverty
Housing Authority Collection photographs

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