HOUSING THE POOR.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13757, 24 June 1913, Page 2

HOUSING THE POOR.

Tho Prussian Diet, or. Landtng, w]uc)i hew charge of tho local government of Berlin, is considering- a Bill to improve the housing of tho poorer cl.igses. The proposed law j3rovic]cp th:;t before building plans arc p;:ss:>d in tho future tho roquirc-nicnts of the >spncial clr»f;s of tonants who - rtroio occupy them iV-O- to ha er.-r&fulljl- considered, isne! by tfiils.'menus a chock in to bo pin«>d on spnculativy building with its concurrent

evils. Streets, squares —infact, ontiro quarters —can bo given over to a now stj'lo of building, in which tho houses can bo constructed in such a. manner as to be more open to tho air; they must neither extend back from the ■facade to tho present customary depth nor must thoy exceed a certain dc-fhiito number of storeys.-