Wholesome Dwellings: Housing Need in Oxford and the Municipal Response, 1800-1939

by Malcolm Graham

A shortage of affordable new housing, builders choosing to build larger, more profitable houses, and a diminishing stock of cheap houses for rent. All this sounds very familiar today, but at the end of the Great War, scarcely any houses had been built for four years and there was political pressure to build 'Homes for Heroes', impelled to a degree by fear of revolution. Council housing, supported by central government funding, was the chosen solution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789697352
• ISBN13: 9781789697353
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 9.9"