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Bates Street Mass Migration Leaves Many of 400 in Daze 1
By Robert L. Lewis
The way out of Bates street is
I easy when you haven’t lived
i there—you hail a taxi and you are
| gone.
But when you have lived there
for a long time, it is a sort of
haven against the world where
you know all your neighbors, and
it is hard to leave, or to think
about leaving.
As things stand today, every one
i on Bates street is having to think
about leaving. And the tenants
in the area of which Bates street
I is the heart are also having to
think about moving. For the
! houses are being sold.
400 Persons to Move.
In fact, Bates street and its
surrounding neighborhood is
undergoing one of the largest mass
migrations in Washington’s his
tory. More than 400 persons have
either moved in the last few days,
or are facing the prospect of mov
ing soon.
They are facing this problem
because, as The Star revealed last
Saturday, one of the Nation’s most
interesting experiments in pri
vately owned low rent housing
finally has come to an end. The
Washington Sanitary Improve
ment Co.’s low-rent homes have
been purchased by new owners,
who are selling the 400 flats in
the Bates street area, just south
of Florida avenue N.W., instead
of continuing to rent them.
“To most of us, it’s like having
the bottom drop out of every
thing,” said one resident today.
Long-Time Tenants.
Aside from the sentimental
wrench of leaving a neighborhood
where you’ve lived a long time
| (most of the tenants have lived
there for more than 10 years), it
is virtually impossible to find rents
anywhere else as low as those on
Bates street. Rents for a four
room flat average about $22.50.
To some living in the area, pay
i ing more rent won’t be a hardship.
;But to the older residents, some
of whom have retired or have been
| widowed, finding additional money
'for rent will be Impossible. And
to the families with children, the
problem will be even greater be
cause of the scarcity of homes.
One widow said:
“I lived here 22 years. I’ve been
a widow 24 years, with four chil
dren. If it hadn’t been for the low
rents on Bates street, I don’t know
how I could have brought up my
children. The worst is over now,
and I’m not worried about myself.
I will find a place sontewhere.”
Lived Here 33 Years.
An elderly woman said:
“My husband and I have lived
here 33 years. I don’t know what
we’d do if it wasn’t for my daugh
ter. She has a good job, and she’s
going to help us. She has found
an apartment for us, and we’re
all going to live together. I didn’t
realize rents were so terrible until
we had to hunt an apartment.”
Another long-time resident said:
“We have paid $21.08 a month,
and when we had to find another
place we first thought of buying.
We found we couldn’t afford to
buy, so we’re going to try to find
an apartment. My daughter says
we’ll probably have to pay $75 or
$80 a month. It’s going to be an
awful burden on my daughter,
but what can we do?”
Many Already Moved.
Many persons already have
moved out of the area—into
apartments mostly, but a few Into
homes they have bought. The ma
jority, however, are still perplexed
about what to do.
One woman said she and her
husband have lived on Bates street
since 1907 and have been able to
“get by” on about $125 a month
in old-age pensions, plus help
from children.
“I don’t know what we’re go
ing to do now,” she said. “We fully
intended to spend the rest of our
lives here. It’s been home to us.
We have thought about going to
Culpeper to live. But we’re better
off than some. I know some peo
ple who will have to go to Blue
Plains (the District home for the
indigent aged).”
A number of tenants seem to
worry more about what will hap
pen to their pets than to them
selves.
“We can have pets here, you
know,” said one 20-year resident.
“But where else can you And a
place where you can have pets?
I don’t know what I’m going to
do with Frisky.” Frisky is the
family dog.
Mrs. Virginia Howdershell, a
resident of Bates street for 43
years and a widow for six years,
is upset over having to give up
her piano.
“I hate to go,” she said. “It
has been like one, big family, this
street. But what I’ll miss the
most, I guess, is my piano.
“I’ve been playing for years,
and it’s just breaking my heart to
give up the piano. There’s no
place for it where I’m going.
We’re trying to smile now, but
it’s hard to leave.”
Nowhere on the street was there
any resentment against the buy
ers. The 400 flats have been sold
to colored families, the new own
ers said.
"We’re not mad at the colored
families,” one woman summed it
up. “It’s not their fault. They
must have places to live too.”
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