The camp cottages and the tenement houses were entirely constructed by the Department of Lands and Buildings through its own contractors, and were assigned for occupancy by the camp commanders. The capacity of these camp cottages, allowing one person to the room, was 15,288 persons, and the greatest population at any one time was 16,448. The tenement houses accommodated about 650 people. The grant and loan buildings were erected partly by contractors of the housing committee[175] of the Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, and partly by the people themselves. Those applicants whose houses were built by the housing committee made part payments to the amount of $57,073.16 in cash. Each owner of a so-called bonus house received from the Department of Lands and Buildings the promised bonus upon the completion of his building, in the erection of which the Department had no part.
[175] See [Part IV], [p. 253] ff.
The amount expended for shelter in the camps has been given in Part I,[176] and expenditures for the aged and infirm will be considered in detail in [Part VI]; but to gather the total expenditures from the relief funds into one enumeration, the following inclusive table is given:
[176] See [Part I], [p. 86], and [Table 26], [p. 87].
TABLE 64.—EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSING MADE BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS, BY THE SAN FRANCISCO RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS, A CORPORATION, AND BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY FROM CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION, FROM APRIL, 1906, TO JUNE, 1909
| Housing the homeless (emergency shelter) | $187,056.56 | [177] | |
| Assistance in construction of permanent homes: | |||
| Through Lands and Buildings Dept., as bonuses | $423,288.17 | ||
| Through Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, all grants of RehabilitationCommittee, of Committee V, or of other sub-committee, and all loans whether repaid or not | 567,300.85 | ||
| $990,589.02 | |||
| Construction of camp cottages and tenements | 884,558.81 | [177] | |
| Construction of Ingleside Model Camp for aged and infirm | 36,230.59 | [177] | |
| Construction and equipment of permanent home for aged and infirm | 374.722.22 | [177] | |
| Total expenditures | $2,473,157.20 | ||
[177] Sixth Annual Report, American National Red Cross, pp. 73, 90, 96, 98.
A tent camp was opened here May 19, 1906
Camp No. 13, Franklin Square