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Mutual Exchanges.—During the year efforts have been directed
to effecting as many moves as possible by way of mutual exchange.
A Mutual Exchange Register has been set up in the Housing Department
for the convenience of tenants and licensees who wish to
exchange accommodation with others, and this has proved effective
in putting a number of families in touch with each other. The
majority of mutual exchanges have, however, been the result of
individual contact between families concerned, sometimes by way of
advertisement. All such applications have been sympathetically
considered by the Housing Committee, and the vast majority of them
have been approved.
A total of 47 such exchanges were effected during the year, which
means of course, that double this number of families were satisfactorily
housed by this means. Every opportunity is taken to bring
to the notice of tenants and licencees requiring other accommodation
the facilities offered through the Mutual Exchange Register,
and the number of applications for these exchanges has shown a
gratifying increase during the year.
In dealing with these applications, the Committee have not
restricted themselves to exchanges between their own tenants. In
a great number of cases they have been effected with the ready
co-operation of the London County Council Housing Department.
Others have been arranged by co-operation with other Local Authorities,
most of them in London but a few others in the provinces. It
has also been possible to effect exchanges with private tenants
through the co-operation of their landlords."