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The Housing Department now has control of 2,908 Councilowned
units of accommodation, an increase of 133 over that of the
previous year.
At the end of the year, in addition to 89 occupied hutments, a
total of 930 properties giving 1,634 units of accommodation were
requisitioned by the Council in order to provide for persons rendered
homeless as a result of enemy action or who were otherwise inadequately
housed.
(b) London County Council.—By 31st December, 1953, the L.C.C.
had provided alternative accommodation for a total of 352 Greenwich
families of which 31 had been certified as overcrowded cases.
Of this figure, 176 were housed on L.C.C. housing estates outside
the Borough.
Overcrowding.—As a direct result of rehousing carried out by
the Housing departments of the Council and the County Council,
57 cases of overcrowding were abated during the year under review.
The number of unabated certified cases of overcrowding in the
Borough now amounts to 289.
During 1953 there was a rise in the number of complaints
received concerning overcrowding, the year's figure of 146 shows an
increase of 41 over that of the previous year. Each complaint was
investigated by the Sanitary Inspector concerned and as a result of
these investigations, 53 families were found to be overcrowded
according to the standards laid down by the Housing Act, 1936,
and were subsequently certified as such.