The whole question of housing, both in shacks, cottages, old 

 houses and lodging houses should be made the subject for a thor- 

 ough investigation, especially with a view of instituting cheap 



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DISTRICT MAP 



Xo. 1. Poorest quarter of city. Congestion and bad housing. Some 

 manufacturing plants and mercantile establishments. Xo. 2. Chinatown and 

 old segregated district. Cheap, new hotels, rooming houses, shacks and old 

 buildings. Xo. 3. Logan Heights district. Old residences and small houses 

 of cheaper grade. Xo. 4. Shacks on water front. Good homes higher up. 

 Manufacturing plants and railroads. Xo. 5. Varies from best apartments 

 to cheap boarding houses. Some residences. Xo. 6. Xew small houses. Dis- 

 trict under development. No. 7. Downtown business district. Other dis- 

 tricts — Best residences west, south and east of park. Include newer resi- 

 dence sections. 



housing for the working population. It is not beyond the bounds 

 of possibility for the city itself to become a landlord by develop- 

 ing cheap housing accomodations on its extensive pueblo lands. 

 It has already established a precedent for this by renting unsan- 

 itary shacks to squatters on the water front. Where such high 

 rent returns are expected on the money invested there is bound 

 to be over-crowding in the slum districts. The Mexicans, unlike 

 foreigners in some of the eastern cities, do not choose to live 

 crowded in a few rooms. They are willing to live at the edge of 

 the city and will even make their homes attractive with gardens 

 if they can secure a rental within their small wage. There is a 

 field in San Diego for some public-spirited citizen or group of 

 citizens to build sanitary small houses close to a carline, which 

 may be grouped together on a single lot, and rented for a small 



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