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Decrease in Proportion of Residential Property; Rents per room.
There is a tendency in St. George-the-Martyr Ward, as in other parts of the
Borough, to increase the proportion of industrial and commercial property at the
expense of residential property, and it is not unreasonable to believe that, but for
the difficulty of obtaining vacant possession of houses owing to the operation of
the Kent Restrictions Acts, this change in the usage of property in the Ward
would have been more marked. Of 233 houses in the Ward inspected in detail, it
was found that in 72 all the tenements were subject to control under the Rents
Eestrictions Acts; in 105 the houses were only partly controlled; in 41 the houses
were entirely decontrolled; in 15 no information on this point was obtained.
In the controlled tenements the rents averaged about 4s. 6d. per room
unfurnished; in decontrolled tenements 7s. 9d. per room unfurnished. For
furnished rooms the average rent was 14s. 6d. per room.