Old warehouses, store rooms, churches, railroad cars and tents have been used to meet these demands.
A large per cent of these Negroes are located in rooming houses or tenements for several families.

The majority of them cannot find individual rooms.

Many are crowded into the same room, therefore, and too many into the same bed.

Sometimes as many as four and five sleep in one bed, and that may be placed in the basement, dining-room or kitchen where there is neither adequate light nor air.

In some cases men who work during the night sleep by day in beds used by others during the night.