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[1926
Housing.
Summary of Housing from 1919 to 1926 (inclusive).
The number of houses or flats provided by the Islington Borough Council
was 745; the number of houses and flats provided by private enterprise—Sutton
199, Render and others 77, making a total of 276.
Particulars of houses or flats provided under the Council's Housing Schemes.
Halton Mansions
(8 more flats to be erected on lease of two) 160
houses falling-in, during 1932)
City Mansions 47
Queen's Mansions 44
Warltersville Mansions 46
Manchester Mansions 31
Addington Mansions 107
435
*Conversion of 16 houses into 61 dwellings
Tyndale Mansions102
Laycock Mansions132
Houses, etc., Highbury Station Road 15
Total 745
*Includes :—27, Rupert Road
8, Barnbury Street
, Not converted
27 and 25, Canonbury Villas
2, Highbury Grange
Eighty houses of the rateable value of over £50 have been converted into
202 flats. The number of overcrowding cases recorded as dealt with during the
years 1919 to 1926, was:—
1919 11
1920 7
1921 6
1922 10
1923 17
1924 13
1925 19
1926 26
Total 109
These figures, of course, represent only the number of cases which have
been dealt with officially. The number encountered was numerous, but in view
of the difficulties of finding other accommodation, proceedings were not instituted
in the majority of cases met with,