A housing policy / by John Nettlefold.

  • Nettlefold, John.
Date:
1905
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Credit: A housing policy / by John Nettlefold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE GUINNESS TRUST Offices : 64, Queen Street, Cheapside, London. This Trust is very similar to the Peabody Donation Fund. The capital on December 31, 1904, amounted to ;^355,994 I5r. ^d. The sum given by Sir E. C. Guinness (Lord Iveagh) in November, 1889, was ^^200,000, to which has been added ^^25,000, given by the Goldsmiths’ Company in 1893, and ^130,994 15^. ^d. nett income from rents and investments. There are 9,646 persons living in the Trust buildings, which consist of 2,574 separate dwellings containing 5>339 rooms, and the average weekly rent of each room is 2i. i^d. per room per week, including use of common room, baths and hot water supplies. EAST END DWELLINGS CO., LTD. Offices: 27, Chancery Lane, London, W.C. This Company has housed a population of 6,640, and, last autumn, finished and opened an additional block of buildings containing 78 tenements. Apparently there has been some little difficulty in keeping the tenements fully tenanted, and the Directors have consequently decided to lower the rents in order to secure sufficient tenants to fill the buildings. A new block of buildings is also contemplated, to com- prise 120 rooms, in Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green. The Company last year paid 4 per cent, on the pre- ference and 5 per cent, on the ordinary shares.