Tentative Annual Budget for Caring Adequately for Homeless Transient Men in Chicago
| Clearing House | Maximum* | Minimum |
| Rent of headquarters, including light and heat | $ 2,500.00 | |
| Heat and light in free quarters | $ 1,000.00 | |
| Equipment | 1,000.00 | 1,000.00 |
| Office supplies, stationery, printing, etc. | 500.00 | 500.00 |
| Staff: | ||
| Superintendent | 6,000.00 | 4,000.00 |
| Assistant | 2,500.00 | |
| Six interviewers and field workers | 9,000.00 | |
| Two interviewers and field workers | 4,000.00 | |
| Two stenographers | 2,400.00 | |
| One stenographer | 1,500.00 | |
| Physician (part time) | 1,800.00 | |
| Psychiatrist (part time) | 1,800.00 | |
| Director of vocational guidance | 4,000.00 | |
| Janitors | 1,800.00 | 1,800.00 |
| ———— | ———— | |
| Total | $33,300.00 | $13,800.00 |
* The maximum budget represents expenditures in the event headquarters cannot be secured free of rent, services of physician and psychiatrist cannot be secured from city and Institute for Juvenile Research, and at a time when a full staff will be necessary.
2. The reopening of the Municipal Lodging House under the following conditions (adapted from “Program for Model Municipal Lodging House,” by Raymond Robins):
a) Administration: under the City Department of Public Health in close affiliation with the Clearing House for Homeless Men.
b) Purpose: to provide free, under humane and sanitary conditions, food, lodging, and bath, with definite direction for such permanent relief as is needed for any man or boy stranded in Chicago.
c) Registration and preliminary physical examination: made in Clearing House a condition to admission.
d) Standard of service:
i) Sanitary building.