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Glasgow has to a certain extent, aided it must be confessed
by exceptional local circumstances, solved the question.
The Trustees under an Improvement Act of 1897, acquired
at "very moderate prices" 25 acres of vacant ground, the
larger portion of which is in the northern part of the city,
the smaller in the eastern part (Baltic Street and Haghill).
By the end of 1902 the latter portion had been covered with
houses of low rental, the rents averaging £5 per annum for
a one-apartment house, £8 per annum, for a two-apartment
house, exclusive of taxes. For the former no one is
accepted as tenant whose earnings are above 22s. per week ;
for the £8 house tenants are only accepted whose earnings
are below 26s. per week.
The blocks, two in number, are each four storeys high,
and each contain 112 one-room tenements and 145 tworoom
tenements. The cost of these buildings was as follows:
Haghill Tenements.
Site £1,503 12 0
Buildings 15,798 2 4
£17,301 14 4
Baltic Street Tenements.
Site €1,044 2 6
Buildings 10,465 8 1
£11,509 10 7
The balance-sheet for a year of one of these blocks is
given as follows :—