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Finds "excessive overcrowding and other undesirable conditions" in an area of high Negro population concentration.

On basis of statistical analysis, recommends low-cost housing construction and open occupancy

Reports information secured through interviews on employment and housing conditions in parts of city having largest Negro populations. Finds conditions vastly improved over 1940, but much yet to be achieved.

Of cases described, nineteen concern Negro families.

Examines attitudes of residents toward neighbors and toward surroundings in a Detroit area chosen for later urban renewal.

Study covers persons living in a public housing project, in low-cost downtown hotels and rooming houses, and in their own homes. Groups were about equally divided, black and white.

This publication, on file in publisher's office, was not examined.

This third study of Detroit families of ten years or less, living in area bounded by Hastings, Dequindre, Canfield, and Watkings, concludes Detroit must provide better housing facilites for its lower class Begro residents (See also Ponder and Howcott…

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Reports among pluses of year, adoption of city fair housing ordinance, and election of first non-white member to city commission. Examined at Jackson Community Relations Department.