In a single month more than 32,000 requests for living quartersapartments, a room, anythinghad poured into the Officers Service Committee in Manhattan. But quarters were found for only 2,750 families.
Last week applications were pouring in faster than ever and only a few dingy furnished rooms were available. Volunteer workers wondered if there was anything like it anywhere.
There was: war-jammed cities all over the nation felt the pinch of the greatest housing shortage in the nation's history. In Kansas City, the Veterans' Housing Center had 700 applications, could fill only...
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