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These Houses are Ours - Co-operative and community-led housing alternatives 1870-1919 (Paperback)
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These Houses are Ours - Co-operative and community-led housing alternatives 1870-1919 (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 320
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The years before the First World War saw the development of a
widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at
affordable rents through co-operative and community endeavour. From
Cornwall to central Scotland, Suffolk to South Wales, working-class
tenants moved into their newly constructed homes and began to
create communities. As Birmingham housing reformer John Nettlefold
put it in 1914, tenants might not be able to own their individual
houses but they could nevertheless say that, collectively, ‘these
houses are ours’. Many of the estates adopted ‘garden
village’ principles as a radical alternative to conventional
urban streets of high-density housing. Community meeting rooms,
allotments, sports facilities and children’s playgrounds were
frequently included. As Andrew Bibby points out in his richly
researched book, this almost forgotten history mirrors uncannily
current interest in bottom-up community-led efforts to meet housing
need. As we face a housing crisis once again in Britain, and with
council housing no longer the default means of providing affordable
homes, the alternative models for social housing developed more
than a century ago offer much that is relevant to us today
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