FLATS TO REPLACE SLUMS
BRITISH EXPERIMENT WITH LOW RENTS (bhitisb omcui wibeums.) RUGBY. April 30. Sir Kingsley Wood (Minister for Health! opened a block of flats at Bristol, which are a new experiment in slum clearance. Flats are being provided to 'meet the needs of small families and elderly single people who are unable, owing to their work, to move to outlying estates, and who do not require fullsized houses. Those who ,wili occupy the flats are persons of very small means, and in this scheme the Bristol Corporation is helping some of the lower paid workers in the slums. Rents of the smallest flats are as low as four shillings a week, including .rates, water, and electric light. The flats include some of the furniture needed by tenants. Sir Kingsley Wood said that the greatest contribution that had been made by the present generation to social improvement and security had been in the provision of better housing.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22082, 3 May 1937, Page 3
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