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Re-Housing.—
(a) Borough Council.—There were 169 new dwellings provided
by the Council during the year and the number of families housed
and re-housed including transfers, casual voids, etc., amounted to
306. Of this number, 21 were in respect of overcrowded cases and
23 families re-housed from outside the Borough.
The Housing Department now has control of 3,201 Councilowned
units of accommodation, an increase of 54 over that of the
previous year.
At the end of the year, in addition to 65 occupied hutments, a
total of 576 properties giving 1,085 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, 1956, the L.C.C. had provided alternative accommodation
for a total of 222 Greenwich families of which 3 had been certified
as overcrowded cases. Of this figure, 135 were housed on L.C.C.
housing estates outside the Borough. One family from outside
Greenwich was rehoused in the Borough under the L.C.C.
scheme.
(c) Other.—A further 46 families were rehoused by other
means.
Overcrowding.—As a direct result of rehousing carried out
under (a), (b) and (c) above 70 cases of overcrowding were abated
during the year under review. The number of unabated certified
cases of overcrowding in the Borough now amounts to 153.
During 1956 there was a rise in the number of complaints
received concerning overcrowding, the year's figure of 97 showing
an increase of 36 over that of the previous year. Each complaint
was investigated by the Public Health Inspector concerned and as a
result of these investigations 38 families were found to be overcrowded
according to the standards laid down by the Housing
Act, 1936, and were subsequently certified as such.
It can be seen by the figures in the following table that there
has been a definite decline since 1945 in the number of families
found to be living in overcrowded conditions in the Borough :—