Housing

Question 1

social housing

Answer 1

available houses/flats at reduced rent for those on low incomes (provided by the council)

Question 2

housing act 1919

Answer 2

clearance of slums post-war
- led to a house building boom to provide shelter (houses lasted until 1970/80s)

Question 3

new towns act 1946

Answer 3

programme for building ‘new towns’
- government power to designate areas of land for development (development corporation set up per town)
- first ‘new town’ was Stevenage

Question 4

public health acts

Answer 4

councils required to monitor the state of accommodation in their area
- should intervene if unfit for human habitation
- eg Awaab Ishak who died because of unfit housing at 2 years old

Question 5

homelessness

Answer 5

council have a statutory duty to house the ‘unintentionally homeless’ and those threatened with homelessness within 28 days
- housing act 1996 allowed councils to consider available accommodation anywhere in the UK not just in their area
- priorities: pregnant women, those with dependable children, natural disasters, vulnerable people
- 6631 people sleeping rough in sept 2022 (not a true scale of hidden homelessness)