"LOWER RENTS" AS A CITY SLOGAN

U-z-r.-z-z.-7. went the bell every five minutes through- out the lower rents exhibit of the New York Congestion Committee. “Every time this bell rings.” explained a pla- card, “land values increase $1,000 in New York. Who gets it? Land speculators. Who makes it? You. when you pay your rent.” Oral Hygiene journal, January, 1914

The exhibit must have run for over a year, because I found a reference to a speech Mayor Gaynor gave on “The Single Tax” there on February 17, 1913.


THe exhibit was at 29 Union Square.