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Handout 1
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| Rents under White Tenants |
Rents under Colored Tenants |
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| Per month | Per month | ||||
| Front- | 1st floor (store, etc.) |
$21 | Front- | 1st floor (store, etc.) |
$21 |
| 2nd | 13 | 2nd | 14 | ||
| 3rd | 13 | 3rd | 14 | ||
| 4th (and rear) |
21 | 4th | 14 | ||
| Rear- | 2nd | 12 | Rear- | 2nd | 12 |
| 3rd | 12 | 3rd | 13 | ||
| 4th (see front) |
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| -- | 4th | 13 | |||
| Rear house- | 1st | 8 | Rear house- | 1st | 10 |
| 2nd | 10 | 2nd | 12 | ||
| 3rd | 9 | 3rd | 11 | ||
| 4th | 8 | 4th | 10 | ||
| Total | $127 | Total | $144 | ||
Source: Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, ed. David Leviatin (1890; reprint, New York: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996).