Chapter : 3. Work, Life & Leisure - Cities in Count. World
Housing
(c) Housing :
(i) When people began pouring in London after the industrial Revolution, Individual landowners put up cheap, and usually unsafe, tenements for the new arrivals.
(ii) Poverty was concentrated and starkly visible in the city. In 1887. Charles Booth a Liverpool Ship-owner found that as many as 1 million Londoners were very poor and were expected to live only up to an average age of 29. They were more likely to die in a 'workhouse, hospital or lunatic asylum London, he concluded 'needed the rebuilding of at least 400, 000 rooms to house its poorest citizens.
(iii) A large number of people recognize the need for housing for the poor as the vast masses of one room houses occupied by the poor were seen as a threat to public health, they were overcrowded, badly ventilated, and lacked sanitation, there were worries about fire hazards created by poor housing, there was a widespread fear of social disorder, especially after the Russian Revolution in 1917.
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