The Housing Problem: Its History, Growth, Legislation and ProcedureSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1920 - 544 pages |
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... occupied or not , in all the workmen's dwellings in the country as existing accom- modation , it is insufficient to house the working class without overcrowding . If only healthy rooms are taken into consideration the position is very ...
... occupied or not , in all the workmen's dwellings in the country as existing accom- modation , it is insufficient to house the working class without overcrowding . If only healthy rooms are taken into consideration the position is very ...
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... occupied by the immediate evils of the factory system that they failed to observe the huge growth of population which the development of industry had brought in its train . The housing of this population was the next problem which ...
... occupied by the immediate evils of the factory system that they failed to observe the huge growth of population which the development of industry had brought in its train . The housing of this population was the next problem which ...
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... occupied by persons of the labouring classes and the clauses usually inserted in Private and Local Bills and Provisional Order Confirmation Bills in pursuance thereof ; and to report whether any amendments should be made in such ...
... occupied by persons of the labouring classes and the clauses usually inserted in Private and Local Bills and Provisional Order Confirmation Bills in pursuance thereof ; and to report whether any amendments should be made in such ...
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... occupied by thirty or more persons belonging to the working class , from entering on any such dwellings until the Local Government Board has either approved a housing scheme or decided that a scheme is not necessary . Any scheme must ...
... occupied by thirty or more persons belonging to the working class , from entering on any such dwellings until the Local Government Board has either approved a housing scheme or decided that a scheme is not necessary . Any scheme must ...
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... occupy the new quarters supplied . One reason for this was that such very poor people could not afford to pay the high rents which the new building scheme inevitably entailed . It is also true to some extent that such tenants do not ...
... occupy the new quarters supplied . One reason for this was that such very poor people could not afford to pay the high rents which the new building scheme inevitably entailed . It is also true to some extent that such tenants do not ...
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accommodation acquired acquisition acre Amendment amount annual apply approved assisted scheme authority back-to-back houses borough Bournville building built by-laws capital cent City Classes Act clause cloth gilt Committee common lodging-house compensation cost cottages demy 8vo District Council dwelling-house dwellings economic rent erection estimated expenditure expenses financial assistance Garden Government Board Housing Acts Housing and Town housing schemes included increase industrial insanitary interest labour lease Liverpool local authority Local Government Board London County Council Majesty's Treasury medical officer ment Minister of Health Ministry necessary number of houses occupied officer of health official arbitrator overcrowding owner Parliament payable persons population Port Sunlight powers principal Act proposed Public Health Act public utility societies Public Works Loan purchase purpose re-housing regard regulations rent respect rooms Rural District sanitary secure slum Street tenants tenements thereof tion town planning scheme Urban District Vict wages
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Page 509 - To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled...
Page 43 - ... in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation...
Page 419 - Act into effect, and any regulations so made shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be...
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Page 303 - ... securing proper sanitary conditions, amenity, and convenience in connection with the laying out and use of the land, and of any neighbouring lands.
Page 13 - Observance of the same by enacting therein such Provisions as they think necessary as to the giving of Notices, as to the Deposit of Plans and Sections by Persons intending to lay out Streets or to construct Buildings...
Page 236 - ... a condition that the house is at the commencement of the tenancy, and an undertaking that the house will be kept by the landlord during the tenancy, in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation...
Page 1 - Palaces, baronial castles, great halls, stately mansions, do not make a nation. The nation in every country dwells in the cottage ; and unless the light of your constitution can shine there, unless the beauty of your legislation and the excellence of your statesmanship are impressed there on the feelings and condition of the people, rely upon it you have yet to learn the duties of government.
Page 64 - If the Local Government Board make a recommendation to that effect, the period for which the loan is made by the Public Works Loan Commissioners may exceed the period allowed under the...