HOUSING IN SCOTLAND

Evening Star, Issue 19522, 1 April 1927, Page 1

HOUSING IN SCOTLAND

. Encouraged by the success which has attended the construction of the- first 2.000 steel houses in Scotland, the. Scottish Board of Health has now decided to invite tenders for the erection of a further thousand steel houses in the industrial areas where the need of new accommodation is most pressing (says.‘The Times’), Of tho original 2.000 houses, most of the Coriesand and Weir . houses arc completed, but tho Atholl houses were delayed by tho coal stoppage. The construction of steel houses has apparently spurred on the builders of brick houses, as the Government- felt would be the case. ‘Whereas 4,000 subsidy houses were built in Scotland in 1924 and 8,000 in 1925, the total number of such houses completed last year was 13,500, and for the first time it was possible to meet the normal yearly demand for new houses, which is estimated at about 12,000, and to make an inroad into the accumulated arrears, which are put at about 100,000. At the' beginning of last year the number of subsidy houses under construction was 13,(MX), whereas at tho beginning of 1927 the figure was nearly 19,000. A largo number of the steel houses are now occupied, and it is stated that no complaints have been received from the tenants. ■ ■