Word: proble
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...years le probléme de I'appartement has been a chief topic of French conversation. In the swank Neuilly and Passy districts of Paris there are many big new apartment buildings where an apartment can be bought for from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs ($28,500), but cannot be rented: the contractors, short of liquid capital, demand a lump sum. In the suburbs, numbers of municipally owned apartment houses have gone up, but they are for functionaries and privileged workers, and the priority list is long. The great mass of French people looking...