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| Long title | An Act to amend Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890. |
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| Citation | 63 & 64 Vict. c. 59 |
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| Royal assent | 8 August 1900 |
The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 59) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 72) was a public health act, not a housing act. It empowered local authorities to condemn slum housing, but not to purchase the land or finance new housing. The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 70) gave urban authorities the legal power to buy land and to construct tenements and housing estates. The 1900 act empowered authorities to purchase land for the same purpose outside of their jurisdictions.
The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 70) is made up of four parts and seven schedules. [1]
The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 55) amended the financial provisions of part 2 of the principal act.
This act was an extension to the 1890 act to empower authorities (other than rural district councils) under part 3 of the 1890 act to acquire land for housing purposes outside the area over which they have jurisdiction, and permitting metropolitan borough councils, if they so desire, to become authorities under part 3 of the principal act. [2]
This gave local authorities the legal power to buy land through compulsory purchase and to construct tenements and housing estates. Part 3 of the principal act allowed councils to:
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The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Sections 7 to 10 of this Act are amongst the enactments which may be cited as the Public Health Acts.
The Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company was a nineteenth-century philanthropic model dwellings company, which later became a multinational property developer before being absorbed into Sun Life.
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Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council housing or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in social housing. Dwellings built for public or social housing use are built by or for local authorities and known as council houses. Since the 1980s non-profit housing associations became more important and subsequently the term "social housing" became widely used, as technically council housing only refers to housing owned by a local authority, though the terms are largely used interchangeably.
A council house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities. A council estate is a building complex containing a number of council houses and other amenities like schools and shops. Construction took place mainly from 1919 after the Housing Act 1919 to the 1980s, with much less council housing built since then. There were local design variations, but they all adhered to local authority building standards. The Housing Acts of 1985 and 1988 facilitated the transfer of council housing to not-for-profit housing associations with access to private finance, and these new housing associations became the providers of most new public-sector housing. The characterisation of council houses as 'problem places' was key for leading this movement of transferring public housing stock to the private arena. By 2003, 36.5% of the social rented housing stock was held by housing associations.
The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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