This article is about the British legislation. For the U.S. legislation, see Housing Act of 1949.
United Kingdom legislation
Housing Act 1949
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
An Act to amend the Housing Act, 1936; to promote the improvement of housing accommodation by authorising the making of contributions out of the Exchequer and of grants by local authorities; to amend the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1946, with respect to the amounts of contributions payable thereunder out of the Exchequer, and certain other enactments relating to the making of contributions out of the Exchequer in respect of the provision of housing accommodation; to authorise the making out of the Exchequer of contributions in respect of the provision of hostels and of grants in respect of building experiments; to extend and amend other enactments relating to housing and domestic water supply; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
Citation
12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 60
Dates
Royal assent
30 July 1949
The Housing Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 60) was a British Act of Parliament which enabled local authorities to acquire homes for improvement or conversion with 75% Exchequer grants.[1] It also bestowed upon local authorities a wide range of useful powers, such as to provide restaurants or canteens and laundry facilities for tenants of municipal flats and housing estates, and to sell furniture to them. The legislation also removed the restriction imposed upon local authorities by previous pieces of housing legislation which limited them to providing housing for working-class people only. The aim of this change was to allow local authorities to develop mixed estates of houses of more varied types and sizes, thereby attracting all income groups.[2] In addition, housing improvement grants for private landlords and owner-occupiers were introduced under the Act. According to Norman Ginsburg, this piece of legislation was the first example of a "welfarist" policy in respect of owner-occupiers, as local authorities were to direct these grants towards bringing properties up to a sixteen-point standard.[3]
^Fraser, Derek (1973). The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of Social Policy Since the Industrial Revolution. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-11182-6.
^Pritt, Denis Nowell (1963). The Labour Government 1945-51. Lawrence & Wishart.
^Ginsburg, Norman (1999). "Housing". In Page, Robert M.; Silburn, Richard (eds.). British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-67771-1.
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