BETTER HOUSING
SLUM CLEARANCE IN BRITAIN NEW EXPERIMENT IN BRISTOL, (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY. May 1. Sir Kingsley Wood opened a block of flats at Bristol, which are a new experiment in alum clearance. The flats are being provided to meet the needs of small families and elderly single ale who are unable, owing to their , to move to outlying estates, and do not require full-sized houses. The families who will occupy them are per* sons of very small means, and in this scheme the Bristol Corporation is tackling tho hard core or some of the lower paid workers in the slums. The rents of the smallest flats are as low as four shillings a week, inclusive of rates, water, and electric light, and include some furniture for the tenants. Sir Kingsley said that the greatest contribution that had been_ made by the present generation to social improvement and security had been in respect of better housing for the people.
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Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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163BETTER HOUSING Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 9
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