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Housing (Charles Booth's Observations about Unskilled Workers (Poverty…
Housing
Housing For Migrant Workers
During industrial revolution, migrant workers poured into cities like London
Factories & workshop owners did not provide housing for the migrant workers
Instead individual landowners put up
cheap & usually unsafe tenements
for the migrants
Tenements
are run down & overcrowded apartments especially in the poorer sections of large cities
Charles Booth's Observations about Unskilled Workers
Poverty was very visible in the cities
Charles Booth was a Liverpool shipowner
He conducted a survey of low skilled workers in East End of London
He found that 1 million Londoners were very poor
The poor was expected to live only upto an average age of
29 while 59 years
was the life expectancy of middle class
The poor were likely to die is a "workhouse, hospital or a lunatic asylum"
Conclusion:
Needed
rebuilding of 400,000 rooms
to house the poor citizens
Reasons for Recognising Need for Housing for the Poor
Vast one-room houses occupied by the poor was a
serious health threat
1.1 They were overcrowded, badly ventilated & lacked sanitation
There were worries of
fire hazards
caused by poor housing
There was fear of
social uprisings
especially after the Russian Revolution
So mass housing scheme for workers was planned
Steps Taken to Clean London
Steps were taken to 1) Decongest localities, 2) green the open spaces, 3) reduce pollution, 4) landscape the city
5) Large blocks of apartment buildings were built like those in New York, which had housing problems
6) Rent control was introduced to reduce housing shortage during 1st World War
7) Wealthy residents of London built holiday homes in the countryside for clean country air
8) To provide new "lungs" for the city, Green Belt around London was planned