HOUSING: Slum Clearance. 5 minute read. TIME. August 16, ... At the end of the fifth day Senators wearily voted, 64-to-16, for a Housing Bill gutted by conservative amendments.

Smack in the middle of the slum-mulligan of Manhattan’s lower East Side two barefaced, rectangular apartments rear their bricks twelve stories into the air. Jointly christened Knickerbocker ...