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118.
I am indebted to Miss A. M. Lupton, Hon. Secretary
of the Fulham Housing Association, for the following
information regarding the work of the Association:—
The Fulham Housing Association since its formation
in 1928 has occupied itself in propaganda and stirring up
public interest in the Housing Problem in Fulham.
Fulham Housing Week held in May, 1930, was a concentrated
effort in this direction, and meetings have been
addressed in all parts of the borough throughout the year.
A Housing Stall held in the Fulham Health Week
Exhibition aroused much interest.
The Association began its work at Bishop Creighton
House, but has now a separate office at 91, Dawes Road,
where plans and models are always on show, and applications
are received, both from families and from various
charitable organisations on their behalf, for accommodation
in the flats belonging to the Fulham Housing Improvement
Society.
There is clearly great need for inexpensive accommodation
in the borough, especially for families with a low
income and young children. Many of the applicants at
the Housing Society's office definitely state that they are
refused by the ordinary house agents because they have
children.
The Fulham Housing Improvement Society makes a
point of selecting families with children, but though it is
constantly increasing its holding of property, it is hardly
ever able to acquire an empty house or flat, so that it is
only very rarely that any of the long and constantly
increasing list of applicants can be satisfied.
Since its formation in 1928 the Society has built a
block of six flats at Parsons Green, and made seven flats
in a school building in Dorncliffe Road. Otherwise it has
directed its energies towards re-conditioning, and making
houses originally intended for one family into self-contained
flats or maisonettes for 2 or 3 famiiles. Rents of
these properties vary between 8/6 to 25/- per week inclusive,
the more expensive ones being occupied by families
with several earners working in Fulham, who had been
living in totally inadequate accommodation until they
became the Society's tenants. The Society now has 72
families, 344 people, as tenants, and is steadily acquiring
fresh property.