Decaying Houses
public meeting “ held recently to discuss housing problems was reported in your Thursday’s issue. The business people are worried about-business being driven out to the suburbs, while they themselves are partly to blame. Lots of formerly attractive city homes have been bought up, converted into offices, etc., and rapidly become a sad picture of wanton neglect. Strangely enough, some of the worst offenders are well-known advertising agencies whose newly acquired premises are anything but a good advertisement to them. A tour of inspection by the housing committee would find a sorry state of affairs. All these invaders of the residential, areas seem interested in is business, and gardens surrounding their premises are nurseries for every noxious weed imaginable. The sooner these invaders are pushed back into the central commercial area and the houses lived in and cared for again as formerly, the better for the general wellbeing of our city.—Yours, etc., PUBLICITY. June 12, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28921, 15 June 1959, Page 3
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