When these little ones have a good deal to. Here are a couple of boys who are really fixed for the winter. And this queen and her family have no housing problem. These fellows may be wondering about the next banana but not about the price of a nights lodging. They have a ceiling over their heads. What about these fellas . They are sleeping without benefit of a ceiling, rent or otherwise. 2 million men are married since entering the service. Many were married when they started packing packs or swinging seatbacks. A lot of men are gone through this routine. Sat through the last army lecture, signed the last navy pay voucher, and come home to love and affection. And problems, lots of problems. What do you want, sargeant . A job . You, private, do you want to know about schools or do you have a different kind of problem . Having trouble finding an apartment or a house like this one . All brick, six rooms, oil burning, near all churches and shopping. Convenient transportation. How much rent for this house . For this couple, together again after being separated by 3. 5 years of pacific water . Probably pacific water. Well, how much mister agent . A little more than you expected wasnt it . Can you make it, joe . Go back home, sit down again with your pencil and paper and see if you can work it out. Did i say home . Her folks are swell, but a fellow would like to spend a little time alone with his wife after three and a half years of Community Living in barracks and foxholes. Joe may no longer be a private, but his budget is one thing he would like to keep that way. Particularly when he sees stuff like this coming along. And joe, yours isnt the only family doubling up. There are lots more like yours. What lots more to come. You nothing like a nice june wedding with orange blossoms, bridesmaids and a very special ring. But today theres something you have to take care of before choosing a ring. It used to be fun, but even the exuberance of youth cant change the fact that the situation today is tough. Weve had a time with housing while you are gone. Building materials and labor went to war. The materials that you have gone into houses like this were going into houses like this window glass, roofing, steel, paint, flooring. The fellas who usually built these were building these. There was practically no Home Building except in critical Production Centers were great war plans developing. This lack of building threatened the rent of houses and apartments skyrocketing. Until the office of Price Administration stepped in to protect the people by holding the line. Not only on prices, but on rents as well. These men may not be able to define stabilization, but skyrocketing rents is something they understand. A lot of subjects are being discussed in american town meetings these days. But one thing most people are agreed on is that rent control is a good thing. I think so. My name is johnson. I own a house over on sixth street that is rented full up. It has been for the past five years. Sure, i would like to get higher rents. But if i can hike rents, someone else would be entitled to hire this and someone else would be entitled at higher that. Before long, on that rate, we would all be on a rollercoaster. Maintenance and repairs are a landlords big problem today. In lieu of materials and labor shortages, it might tell us youre willing to understand my problems in that respect. I can get along with rent control. The way i figure, what this country needs is a little more golden rule and a little less rule of gold. How do my tenants like rent control . Why dont you ask them . My name is catherine kelly. I live at 109, sixth street. Mr. Kelly, my husband, works in the post office. I guess he is what you would call a salaried man. Theres a lot to be said to be a salaried man, but i can tell you most of us never get rich out of it. What about rent control . I dont know much about it except we were paying 39 dollars a month rent before the war and were still paying it. We just couldnt pay any more. Clark, james clark, radio engineer. Im one of mr. Johnsons attendance as well. What do i think of rent control . Well mister, ive got a family to support and anything that keeps down the cost of living is all right with me. Rent control isnt perfect. There are very few chillers and rent gougers who insist on bonus payments and phony tight in sales of furniture. But by the vigilance of cooperating landlords and other local citizens, as well as government officials, the public is protected. What this public. And this public. The shooting war is over, but we are still at war against inflationary prices and rents. Next to food, rent is the largest item in our budget. Lifting rent controls while homes are still scarce would break all other price controls. Such a break of a line would be followed by skyrocketing prices and the kind of headache we had after world war one which started when rents jumped 50 after armistice day. With this situation, it becomes of the utmost importance to hold the line. Break the line on rent by paying or charging illegal rent and you could help start an inflation whos only result would be the kind of deflation and depression that followed world war i. Take the lid off of rents and you make it tough for this veteran of world war ii, coming home to the wife and baby and job he left. What is in store for him when the sun comes up tomorrow and he swings down to the station platform he left four years ago . His future income of love and affection maybe unlimited, but his financial income will be limited. Remove rent ceilings and you deal a blow to the workers of our industrial army, going back into the factories to their reconversion and keep us on the road to prosperous full production. The government has been aiding in all ways to stimulate the construction of new homes. Building material prices are being controlled and Building Supplies are being channel to where they will be of the greatest good to the greatest number. To the types of homes that most people need. But demand still far exceeds supply and will for a long time to come. It will be sometime before there are enough of these and these to satisfy adequately tremendous pent up demand of the war years. Years when we stood shoulder to shoulder against. Lets all stand shoulder to shoulder in our own land. To protect these men and millions like them in and out of uniform against the homegrown evil of rising rents. Bonuses and furniture rackets. If you were threatened with an illegal eviction, reported to the opp a. You will get help. If you know of a rant violation, reported to the opa. They will act on it. If you have a red problem, ask the opa about it. They cant find a place to live, but they can give you all the answers to any questions on rent. We won the shooting war by working together. Lets win the battle against skyrocketing rents and inflationary prices the same way. So that these honored living who fought and worked will not have fought and worked in vain