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Housing.
During the year 1902 an enquiry was held by the Local
Government Board with reference to an application for a
loan proposed to be raised for the erection of Workmen's
Dwellings under the Housing of the Working Classes Act,
which application was granted.
The scheme involved the erection of 60 houses, Class 1.
There are 12 Cottages of this class having the following
accommodation:—
1 Kitchen and 1 Scullery, 2 Bedrooms.
The Cottages of this class are let at 5s. 9d. per week.
Class II. There are 12 Cottages of this class containing
the following rooms:—
Kitchen, Scullery, Front Room, 2 Bedrooms.
These Cottages are let at 7s. 6d. per week.
Class III. There are 18 Cottages of this class having the
following accommodation, the alternate cottage having a
frontage of 14ft. 3in. and 16ft. 9in.:—
Front Room, Kitchen, Scullery, 3 Bedrooms.
These Cottages are let at a rental of 8s. 6d. per week.
Class IV. There are 18 Cottages of this class having the
following accommodation:—
Front Room, Kitchen, Scullery, 4 Bedrooms.
These Cottages are let at a rental of 10s. 6d. per week.
There appears to be no lack of house accommodation for
the well paid working man in Finchley. A very large number
of small houses have been erected in recent years, but it is
doubtful whether the rents of these dwellings are not beyond
the means of the ordinary working man, for the fact remains
that many houses which have only been put up in recent
years are let off in tenements and occupied by members of