GRAPPLING WITH THE HOUSING PROBLEM IN ENGLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 23 June 1923, Page 17

GRAPPLING WITH THE HOUSING PROBLEM IN ENGLAND.

In few cities in Britain are the housing demands «o pressing as in Cardiff, which has on its official register over 5000 families for whom there is at present no prospect of separate dwellings. The municipality is anxious to supply the needs of the citizens, and have agreed, in addition to the work of the Health Ministry, to allow private builders to erect houses upon their estate at Ely. The Ely housing scheme of the Corporation is one of the most interesting undertaken by any corporate body in the country. It extends to 450 acres of land, and is designed ultimately to comprise 4000 houses

together with the necessary schools, churches, and an institute and library. Over 100 houses are completed, and 150 more are in an advanced stage of erection. They consist of 110 concrete parlour houses in pairs, one hundred brick nonparlour houses in eight blocks of eight, two blocks of four, and fourteen pairs, while the other 40 are brick parlour houses in pairs. The blocks of four, of which a plan is reproduced, consist each of a living room, scullery, hall and offices, with three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. The contract price of these houses is £572 each, subject to decreases for labour.