The difficulty of securing good service under these conditions, together with the thousand and one annoyances of living at too close quarters, noisy children and pianos, grumpy janitors, smelly garbage, have led to the latest phase: non-housekeeping flats with daily care of a sort supplied by the janitor if desired, a kitchenette where eggs and coffee for breakfast and dishes for invalids may be prepared, and restaurants galore for other meals.

Thus the women of the family are set free to roam the streets in search of bargains and to join others like unto themselves for matinees and promenades.
This sort of shelter is increasing more rapidly than any other in all the cities investigated.

An estimate has been made that 80 or 90 per cent of the recent building has been of this sort.

Six rooms in an unfashionable locality rent for about $25 or $30 a month; in a fashionable quarter, for $200 to $250 per month, with a floor-space one half larger.

These latter cost about 50 cents per week per room for daily care, whereas the former, if cared for from outside, are served only at intervals of two weeks or a month.