Ison the city's rim, whole neighborhoods nearer the city's center were allowed to decay. These central blighted areas became the enforced homes of the poorest workers of all.
With rising land prices went increased building costs. For although the new sanitary and building construction codes of the latter half of the century represented some progress, they did make building a more expensive business. As the century wore on, interest rates on borrowed capital went up too. All these added costs were passed on to the tenant in the form of higher rents. But wages did not Climb nearly as fast as the rents. Consequently more and more people were forced to crowd into the poorest kind of housing — in other words, the Slums. As we have seen, this gap between the Income of lar numbers of people and prevailing rentals is the heart of t housing problem.
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