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IV. HOUSING.
Clearance Areas
There are at present no areas in this Borough containing houses
which are in such a state of disrepair as to justify demolition.
Overcrowding
The results of the Overcrowding Survey carried out in Stoke
Newington in 1935/1936 were fully reported in the Annual Report
for 1935, but the main findings may be recapitulated as follows:—
Families living in overcrowded conditions 462
Families which will be overcrowded before December, 1937.
by reason of children attaining the ages of one or ten
years during that period 42
At the end of 1936 these figures were reduced to 356 cases of
actual overcrowding and 27 cases of possible overcrowding due to age
increases.
With the exception of three families rehoused on the Lordship
Terrace Housing Estate these reductions occurred for the following
reasons:—
(a) Families obtaining additional accommodation privately.
(b) Families moving to unknown addresses.
(c) Families moving outside the Borough.
Necessity for Further Accommodation
There are 356 families residing in this Borough who are living in
overcrowded conditions. The following table shows the accommodation
required to rehouse these families, the flats which will be
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