The Housing Act 1930, 20 & 21 George 5 c.39, otherwise known as the
Greenwood Act, is an
Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It encouraged mass
slum clearance and councils to set to work to demolish poor quality housing and replace it with new build. Subsidies for general housing, were given, these were calculated on the number of people rehoused not the number of properties demolished. '
Back to back' housing had finally ended.
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The recession was ending: this was an Act of a Labour government, The minister to steer it through the house was
Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood, (8 February 1880 – 9 June 1954) was a British politician. A prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s, Greenwood rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department f ...
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