The Housing Problem: Its History, Growth, Legislation and ProcedureSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1920 - 544 pages |
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... whole . The result has been a great awakening of interest in this important question , an interest made manifest in the better administration of existing legislative enactments . In its present form the housing problem began to be ...
... whole . The result has been a great awakening of interest in this important question , an interest made manifest in the better administration of existing legislative enactments . In its present form the housing problem began to be ...
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... whole , out of the many thousands of people dispossessed by housing schemes I do not think that 10 per cent have been re - housed . They ought to be re - housed at rents which they can afford to pay ( even if not economic ) , and this ...
... whole , out of the many thousands of people dispossessed by housing schemes I do not think that 10 per cent have been re - housed . They ought to be re - housed at rents which they can afford to pay ( even if not economic ) , and this ...
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... whole districts which could only be made habitable by a process of root and branch clearance . Disraeli , who had described in Sybil the housing horrors of the " thirties " and " forties , " at a time when his political influence was ...
... whole districts which could only be made habitable by a process of root and branch clearance . Disraeli , who had described in Sybil the housing horrors of the " thirties " and " forties , " at a time when his political influence was ...
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... whole series are described collectively as the ' Artisans ' Dwellings Acts , 1868 to 1882. The second series of Acts , the Cross Acts , commonly spoken of as the " Artisans ' Dwellings Acts , " are officially described as the " Artisans ...
... whole series are described collectively as the ' Artisans ' Dwellings Acts , 1868 to 1882. The second series of Acts , the Cross Acts , commonly spoken of as the " Artisans ' Dwellings Acts , " are officially described as the " Artisans ...
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... whole . time to their duties . Reforms were to be effected in the local administration of London , irrespective of which the question of the border line of action between the Metropolitan Board of Works and other London authorities ...
... whole . time to their duties . Reforms were to be effected in the local administration of London , irrespective of which the question of the border line of action between the Metropolitan Board of Works and other London authorities ...
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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...