Nobody knows that better than I do. for it so happened that during the period of the war. commandeered. as I was by the mayor of New York City. to serve as health commissioner. one of the great problems I had to face was how to house the people. where to put the people. There were places where human beings lived in outrageously insanitary conditions. I said many times during that period that if it were not for the economic stress and the Inability to build houses I would have those places padlocked and their tenants excluded from residence in such unsuitable dwellings. The population was increasing. and immediately after the war immigration was tremendous. as many as a million a year coming in from abroad. There had to be houses. Those families had to be put somewhere.
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