Housing needs for the Immigrating Jewish Community in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 788. Chapter XVIII: Town Planning and The Problem of Housing : Section 2:

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However these figures given cannot be used directly as a measure of housing need; they must first be converted into terms of room units required for the accommodation of the increased number of families. The net increase in the number of families is 27,435, say 27 ,500, and it is assumed that each of these families will occupy two room units. The required accommodation for Jewish natural increase during the period 1936-1945 is, therefore, 55,000 room units.

(2). Immigration.

20. In order to estimate the volume of housing accommodation occupied or required by immigrants it is again necessary to take the family unit as the basis of the calculations; information as to the conjugal condition of immigrants is, therefore, necessary. The immigration statistics for the years 1932-1942 have been published by the Jewish Agency in "The Jewish Population of Palestine" which contains, inter alia, the following information relating to Jewish immigrants who arrived in Palestine during the period 1932-1942 inclusive :

Total number of immigrants Number of families

Number of persons in families Number of single persons Number of families consisting of two persons only

Number

%

195,107 45,188 126,225 68,882

26,753

100 23.2 64.7 35.3

13.7

In order to obtain similar data for the period 1936-1945, for which figures are not yet available, the above percentages have been applied to the total immigration figures for this period with the following results :

Total number of immigrants (1936-1945) Number of families, at 23.2%

Number of single persons at 35.3% Number of families consisting of two

persons only at 13. 7%

117,560 2'7,274 41,498

16,105

Again it is necessary to convert these figures in to terms of room units of housing need and, for this purpose, the following assumptions have been made :

(i) Families consisting of more than two persons require two room. units;

(ii) 50% of families, consisting of two persons only, require two room units;

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