Speech #880035936

Of that total 50.631 are State aided and 27.702 are city aided. This means that almost 57 percent of the public housing units were built with State and local funds. New Yorks housing needs are great. New York State is now trying to house 7 percent of the Nations Negroes. 10 percent of the Nations aged. and 22 percent of our foreign born. Some half million Negroes have migrated to New York from the South. more than to any other State. except California. There are now 350 people per square mile in New York as opposed to the national average of 50 per square mile.