Sixty men and women will interview tenants or landlords for a rent survey and list for City Council the number of vacant dwellings. The council will use the data to decide whether or not to decontrol rents. Thomas Peacock, right, gives surveyors last minute instructions before canvass. Photograph taken ca. 1950.
Housing--California--Los Angeles Rent control--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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