While it is true that the foreign immigrant of a few years ago was probably not accorded any better accommodations in Pittsburgh than is the Negro at present, it should be remembered that the foreigner did not know the language. Everything seemed strange and unfamiliar to him. He was loath to move to an even stranger part of the city and preferred to stay in his first new world home and to live among his own people, even under adverse conditions. It is altogether different with the Negro. He knows the language and the country; he does not fear to migrate and when he does not feel content in one place, he proceeds to look for a better one. We might cite dozens of incidents of men who have either had their families here or intended to bring them, but have gone to other cities where they hoped to find better accommodations. This is certain to continue if cities like Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia keep in advance of Pittsburgh in building or providing houses for these migrants. The Pittsburgh manufacturer will never keep an efficient labor supply of Negroes until he learns to compete with the employers of the other cities in a housing programme as well as in wages. The actual situation of the Pittsburgh housing problem for the Negro is shown by the figures obtained in our survey. Almost ninety-eight percent of the people investigated live either in rooming houses or in tenements containing more than three families. Thirty-five percent live in tenement houses, fifty percent in rooming houses, about twelve percent in camps and churches, and only two and a half percent live in what may be termed single private family residences. _TABLE NUMBER II_ _Kinds of Residences of 465 Negro Migrants Questioned_ +----------------------+--------+----------+-------+---------+ | | SINGLE | FAMILIES | TOTAL | PERCENT | +----------------------+--------+----------+-------+---------+ | Tenement | 30 | 133 | 163 | 35 | | Rooming and Boarding | 223 | 9 | 232 | 50 | | One Family House | 6 | 5 | 11 | 2.5| | Camp | 36 | 0 | 36 | 7.5| | Mission | 23 | 0 | 23 | 5 | | | --- | --- | ---| ----| | | 318 | 147 | 465 | 100 | +----------------------+--------+----------+-------+---------+ Of the men without families here, only twenty-two out of more than three hundred had individual bed rooms. Twenty-five percent lived four in a room, and twenty-five percent lived in rooms used by more than four people. Again only thirty-seven percent slept in separate beds, fifty percent slept two in a bed, and thirteen percent sleep three or more in a bed. _TABLE NUMBER III_ NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN BED ROOM ONE ████ 22 TWO ██████████████████████ 111 THREE ████████████ 61 FOUR ███████████████████ 98