[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontardawe R.D.C.

Pontardawe (Wales). Rural District Council.

Date:: 1937

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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontardawe R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Housing (Rural Workers) Act. Wherever practicable, owners are encouraged to repair and recondition dilapidated country cottages. It is obvious that in the interest of all concerned the rural worker should remain on the land, and with assistance under this Act the Council have helped owners to reconstruct and improve dwellings so that they may be tenanted by agricultural workers, or persons in substantially the same economic position as agricultural workers. During the year grants of £100 each have been paid or promised in respect of six houses. Conclusion. The prospect of Housing in Pontardawe is not free from anxiety. It is clouded by rising costs and unemployment. The Rent Restriction Committee did propose that rent control and protection of the poorer tenants from dispossession should be continued for some years longer, but the Government has declined to accept the Rent Restriction Committee’s proposals as to decontrol after 1942. For this reason ever}- effort should be made to build new houses for all overcrowded families, otherwise the real Housing problem will, in a few years’ time, be far more acute than it is to-day. E. D. JONES, Architect.