LONDON HOUSING
A NOTABLE CHANGE FLATS DISPLACE SLUMS British Official Wireless Service RUGBY, August 23. The success of two schemes for moving slum-dwellers to modern flats is described in a report on the Grosvenor •and Ebury housing schemes to the cost (£431,600) of which the Duke of Westminster contributed £113,650 and the land. A total of 150 flats were completed between April. 1931, and March, 1932, on the Ebury Bridge estate, where the buildings cost £157,500. All 150 flats are now occupied. Both 'estates record a striking improvement in the condition of premises compared with former dwellings. The figures show that the number of very clean premises has increased from 278 330. while indifferent premises fell from 95 to 41. A garden guild on the Ebury estate formed by the tenants, to which all members contribute 2d per month, has been remarkably successful.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 206, 25 August 1932, Page 5
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