As a consequence the Negro migrant often finds himself with less friends than he formerly had.

The northern man who once denounced the South on account of its maltreatment of the blacks gradually grows silent when a Negro is brought next door.

There comes with the movement, therefore, the difficult problem of housing.
Where then must the migrants go?
They are not wanted by the whites and are treated with contempt by the native blacks of the northern cities, who consider their brethren from the South too criminal and too vicious to be tolerated.

In the average progressive city there has heretofore been a certain increase in the number of houses through natural growth, but owing to the high cost of materials, high wages, increasing taxation and the inclination to invest money in enterprises growing out of the war, fewer houses are now being built, although Negroes are pouring into these centers as a steady stream.

The usual Negro quarters in northern centers of this sort have been filled up and the overflow of the black population scattered throughout the city among white people.