homes fit for heros

Question 1

what was found to be wrong with housing in 1917

Answer 1

• huge overcrowding in houses
• lack of basic sanitary service such as toilets in many villages and towns
• an unaceptable number of one roomed houses ocupied by large familys
• lack of proper lighting and ventalation in homes

Question 2

terms of the addison act -1919

Answer 2

local councils given subsdies by the government to build up cheap rented houses

Question 3

what did the riddrie scheme include?

Answer 3

mixture of semi-detached and terraced cotages with gardens and three story tenemnet flats.

Question 4

posotive of the addison act?

Answer 4

by 1922 312,000 homes had been built

Question 5

negative of the addison act

Answer 5

poor familys could not afford to pay the rent on these homes and the government ran out of money

Question 6

terms of the wheatly housing act 1924

Answer 6

john wheatly was an mp with an intrest in working-class housing and he fought for good quality counccil housing to replace city slums. these houses had electricity, gardens and indoor toilets 
the government again gave subsides to local councils to build houses with the hope these would have modest rent

Question 7

posotive of the wheatly housing act

Answer 7

by 1933 500,000 council houses had been buit

Question 8

negatave of wheatly housing act

Answer 8

poor familys again could not afford to pay this rent despite improvements scottish housing remained poor

Question 9

who benefited most from the housing acts?

Answer 9

middle and upper class who could afford to pay the rent