The Potters Herald

Here's What Will Happen If Controls
Are Not Extended

Excerpts from letters to Sen. Herbert Lehman (D., N.
Y.) show what will happen if Congress fails to extend rent
control another year.

A Hagerstown, Md., woman writes:

"My landlord informed me that if and when the rent
control goes off that my rent would be just $5 less than
double what I am now paying. This in spite of the fact that
I have taken care of all major repairs, such as papering,
electric light fixtures, wornout window blinds, and enlarging
the garage, etc."

From Brooklyn another woman writes:

"I make $40 a week and pay $40 a month rent, and I
know if rent controls go off he will raise me sky high, and I,
like many others, will be out on the street."

The wife of a University of Minnesota student reports:

"If rent control goes off here I'm afraid a sort of civil
war shall have to be started. We cannot stand another penny
more of an increase. Thirty-five per cent of our income goes
for rent now, and I know, I am sure, that our landlord shall
raise the rent. My husband is trying to finish here at the
university and I am out of a job—he is not on GI any longer."

Need any more be said to convince Congress it should
extend rent controls another year?