HOUSING IN SYDNEY
EFFECT OF INCREASED RENTS. URGENT NEED FOR REFORM. IMPORTANT PROPOSALS. Pren Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 28. Professor Irvine's report on housing states that many families -who are unable to pay the increased rents have been driven to squat in the bu6h in huts improved out of old tins, packing cases, and sacking. He recommends a General Housing and Town-planning Act on English lines, with a provision for rural villages for city workers, the State to retain general control. Further recommendations include the demolition and treatment of slum areas, insistence on a high standard of sanitation, the lighting and repair of congested areas, the rehousing of the displaced population, the provision of parks and play grounds, loans to encourage copartnership in building and housing schemes, the encouragement of decentralisation, the formation of new centres on garden city lines, and the organisation of household services on a common basis.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15855, 29 August 1913, Page 5
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