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and I am convinced that until there is some form of "controlled subletting"
there can be no satisfactory application of the Bye-laws,
particularly of those sections requiring water, cooking, etc., for each
family.
It has happened in this Borough on several occasions, and it must
have in others, where the Bye-laws have been enforced in all respects,
that within a comparatively short space of time the letting of the house
has completely changed and the entire sanitary and other arrangements
upset.
(3) The Question of re-housing large Families.—The overcrowding survey
has disclosed the fact that there are many families who require six or
more rooms in order to be decently housed. At the present time no
authority is building flats or houses of more than six rooms and these are
exceptional; moreover, it is not possible to provide this large accommodation
in buildings now being erected at anything like the rental which
the large family can afford. The question, therefore, is how and where
can these people be housed ?
It may be possible by some arrangement of exchange between the
various housing authorities and the private owners of the larger type
of houses, which are now being used as tenement houses, that these large
families may be re-housed in these larger houses at reasonable rentals.
Having regard to these suggestions it is very doubtful whether it
is the right and proper thing to do to apply the Bye-laws, even where
it is possible especially at this juncture, as the future usage of any
particular house has yet to be determined.