The civic authorities of Shanghai have opened lour model villages for the poor, with houses renting for the equivalent of 4s 6d a month. This social housing scheme, under the direction of the Labour Welfare Com. mission of Greater Shanghai, Is the beginning of a construction programme designed t'l provide sanitary, comfortable homes o.- the more than 150,000 Chinese poor who are now living in filthy mud and reed hut dwellings in Shanghai's slums. The problem has been aggravated by the influx of thousands of fanners, forced to desert the land because of draught or flood. These unskilled labourers generally become jinriksha pullers or wharf coolies, and earn a precarious living on the borderline of stamLoc. A survey of rents discloses that the average rental paid by the families of jinriksha pullers in the International Settlement is 3s 7d a month, the highest being 7s 6d. and the lowest is sd.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21826, 4 July 1936, Page 21
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