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The Housing Department now has control of 3,034 Councilowned
units of accommodation, an increase of 126 over that of the
previous year.
At the end of the year, in addition to 79 occupied hutments, a
total of 888 properties giving 1,574 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.—During the year ended 31st
December, 1954, the L.C.C. had provided alternative accommodation
for a total of 302 Greenwich families of which 17 had been certified
as overcrowded cases. Of this figure, 155 were housed on L.C.C.
housing estates outside the Borough. Four families from outside
Greenwich were rehoused in the Borough under the L.C.C. scheme.
(c) Other.—A further 77 families were rehoused by other means.
Overcrowding.—As a direct result of rehousing carried out
under (a), (6) and (c) above, 103 cases of overcrowding were abated
during the year under review. The number of unabated certified
cases of overcrowding in the Borough now amounts to 225.
During 1954 there was a considerable decrease in the number
of complaints received concerning overcrowding, the year's figure
of 68 showed a decrease of 78 from that of the previous year. Each
complaint was investigated by the Sanitary Inspector concerned
and as a result of these investigations 39 families were found to be
overcrowded according to the standards laid down by the Housing
Act, 1936, and were subsequently certified as such.