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    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...
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    The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 70) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Housing of the Working Classes...
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  • legislation: Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900 Housing and Planning Act may...
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    The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 72) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Sections 7 to 10 of this Act are...
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    The Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 35) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was also known as the Addison Act...
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    Council opened the Boundary Estate in 1900, a 'block dwelling estate' of tenements in Tower Hamlets. The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900 extended these...
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    authorities. From the first interventions in the Public Health Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55) to the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900, council houses...
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    Tower Gardens Estate (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    Gardens was built by the London County Council (LCC) using powers granted to local authorities by the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900. Samuel Montagu...
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    Chelmsley Wood (category Areas of the West Midlands (county))
    available within the city boundaries. The city council had powers under the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900 to purchase land out-of- area. On 21 December...
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  • characterised by a class-struggle type of society. This is true for both sides of the upper class as well as for the working classes. I think that the way in which...
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  • Alderman Peel High School (category Wells-next-the-Sea)
    Wells-next-the-Sea, during World War I using the powers in the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900. He was chair of the Norfolk Education Committee from 1943...
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  • advertising or negotiating the sale or rental of housing. Such protections have also been extended to other "protected classes" including disabilities and...
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    per acre of land at a time when some London areas had as many as 80 housing units per acre. The passage of the Housing of the Working Classes Act in 1885...
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  • ranging from housing, schools and churches, to libraries, baths, and gymnasia. Middle-class reformers did their best to assist the working classes' aspirations...
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    after the report from a royal commission in England, that the state first took an interest. This led to the Housing of the Working Classes Act of 1885...
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    The Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 35) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. The act built upon the previous Housing...
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  • General Pier and Harbour Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 45) Sea Fisheries Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 45) Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict....
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  • Model dwellings company (category Housing in London)
    of private companies in Victorian Britain that sought to improve the housing conditions of the working classes by building new homes for them, at the...
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    Cecil Wood (architect) (category University of Canterbury alumni)
    It was the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1900 that allowed local councils to create cottage estates. It was not just a stimulating working environment...
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  • London County Council cottage estates (category Public housing in the United Kingdom)
    commission was held, as the state had taken an interest in housing and housing policy. This led to the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict...
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  • housing reform. The First Tenement House Act (1867) required fire escapes for each suite and a window for every room, the Second Tenement House Act (1879)...
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    Wales) Act 1888, some 53 years after other major cities had been municipalised. It took responsibility for the housing of the working classes from the Metropolitan...
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    c. 14). The Housing Act 1930 resulted in the demolition of 245,000 slums by 1939, and the construction of 700,000 new homes. The Housing Act 1930 also...
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  • This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1900. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held...
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    impact on the health of young women from the working classes. He pointed out that a young working-class woman was likely to spend a large part of her earnings...
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    This gave the vote to all householders and to those paying more than £10 in rent in towns – and so enfranchising many of the working class for the first time...
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    Housing in the United Kingdom represents the largest non-financial asset class in the UK; its overall net value passed the £5 trillion mark in 2014. Housing...
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    Increase the capital gains tax rate to 39.6% for taxpayers with annual income above $1 million. Cut taxes for the working and middle classes as well as...
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    used for housing the wealthy, as cities and the demands for ever smaller close housing grew, it regularly became associated with the working class. Terraced...
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    New Deal (redirect from Lanham Act of 1940)
    legislation were the creation of the United States Housing Authority and the FSA, which both occurred in 1937; and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which...
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