TY  - JOUR
T1  - IS the model tenement a failure?
Y1  - 2013/01/02
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.145022
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 13
EP  - 13
VL  - 309
IS  - 1
N2  - 
The New York model tenements, Mr. Smith says, cannot help being a failure under the present conditions of their maintenance and under the provisions of the tenement-house law now in force in the metropolis. There are three reasons for such failure: 1. Legislation concerning the erection of tenement houses is becoming, in some points, too strict, demanding conditions which, in their turn, make necessary more expensive buildings and higher rents—results negativing the very purpose of such legislation. 2. Model tenements, being built by private philanthropy, are constructed of too expensive material and furnished with too many luxuries. 3. The private individuals and organizations that own the dwellings have heretofore found necessary for their maintenance the employment of salaried officials and clerks for the observation of the house's management, the gathering of statistics, etc.; the “red tape” of private philanthropy has helped to hold the rents of model dwellings at a prohibitive figure.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.145022
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.145022
ER  -