CLEARANCE OF SLUMS
EXPERIMENT IN BRISTOL BLOCK OF FLATS OPENED RENTS AS LOW AS ■!/- (British Official Wireless.) Reed. !).30 a.m. RUGBY, May 1. Sir Kingslcy Wood, the Minister of Health, yesterday opened a block of Hats at Bristol. These Hats are it new experiment in the slum clearance campaign.
The Hals 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.
The families who will occupy them arc persons of very small means, and in this scheme the Bristol Corporation is tackling the hard core of the problem of some of 'the lower-paid workers in the slums. The rents of the smallest flats are as low as -Is a week, inclusive of rates, water and electric light, and include some furniture for the tenants.
sir Kingslcy 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 |f,'or the people.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 5
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