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Temporary Houses.
The Council's programme of 315 temporary houses was completed
during the year, and a full report of the method of investigation and
the scheme of allocation was included in my report for 1945.
Permanent Houses.
Work commenced on the Asplins Road and Allington House
permanent housing sites, and it therefore became necessary to
consider the arrangements for allocating permanent houses.
In framing a points scheme to assist them in allocating these
dwellings, the Housing Committee had before them the following
classification of the types of applicants on the housing application
list:—
(1) Families in houses scheduled for action under Sections 25
and 26, Housing Act, 1936, i.e., slum clearance.
(2) Families rendered homeless by enemy action, including
those temporarily rehoused in requisitioned properties; also
evacuees from bombed houses.
(Note:—Many of these families claimed a right to be permanently
rehoused on the sites of their former homes.)
(3) Families of war-time marriages, never having had homes of
their own and. living with friends or relatives.
(4) Families evacuated under Government schemes, who
relinquished accommodation in Tottenham, and have been
unable to find accommodation which would enable them to
return to the district.
(5) Families in rooms, living in overcrowded conditions.
The Council decided that no special allowance should be made
in a points scheme for applications from persons living in Slum
Clearance areas under conditions which were not overcrowded.
Such persons to be dealt with under the normal housing procedure in
relation to slum clearance. Likewise the Council agreed that no
special points allowance should be made in respect of applications
from families living under satisfactory conditions in requisitioned
properties, merely because they had lost their former homes through
enemy bombing attacks.