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2. Sufficiency of Supply of Houses.
Applications for houses are received from persons :—
(a) Residents in the older property—either on account o
defects in their houses or on account of crowding, resulting from
the family growing up. Some of these applicants arc able and
willing to pay the increased rent of a new house; others arc able
but not willing to pay the added rent, while others again, are
unable to pay it. In the old property too, are persons of small
families, for whom a small house is required.
(b) Persons working locally who have obtained lodgings or are
sub-tenants in one of the other houses of the district. In many
cases, these families have been taken in to enable tenants to pay
the rent, and in not a few cases severe overcrowding is caused in
this manner.
(c) Other persons who have obtained work locally, but do not
reside here owing to difficulty of obtaining accommodation.
Comparatively few of the hundreds of teachers employed in the new
schools on the Estate have been able to rent houses locally.
(d) The children of the Estate who have grown up and wish
to be or are married.
To meet these needs, it was suggested in that that some 500
houses would be required. The Council, under the Dagenham Act,
scheduled and subsequently purchased three portions of land for
housing purposes, namely, Eastbrook Farm, Rabbit Field and Rail
Pond Field, a total of about 40 acres. Proposals were submitted
for the erection of 313 houses. Sanction was obtained for the first
107. The work was begun on September 1st, 1030, and by the end
of the year 12 houses had been erected.
There are, in this district, no sites which could be dealt with
under the 1930 Housing Act as "Clearance Areas "or" Improvement
Areas." The following tabic is the quinquennial statement
submitted under the Housing Act, 1930, Section 25 (2)