SYDNEY SLUMS.
TOWN PLANNING ACT RECOMMENDED. By Telegraph—Press Associntion-Oopj-riffht Sydney, August 28. Professor Irvine (of the Chair of Economics at Sydney University), "in his report upon tlio housing conditions for workers in. Sydney, mentions that many families are unablo to pay increased rents, and are driven to squat in bush huts improvised out of old tins, packing cases, and sacking. Ho iecommends a general housing and Town Planning Act on the English'lines, and provision of rural villages for city workers, the State to retain general control of administration. Further recommendations includo demolition and treatment of 6lum areas, insistence on a high standard of sanitation, the lighting and repair of congested areas, rehousing displaced population, provision of parks and playgrounds, loans to encourago co-partnership building, "and housing schemes, encouragement of decentralisation'and the formation of new centres on garden city lines, and organisation of household services on a common basis.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1841, 29 August 1913, Page 7
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148SYDNEY SLUMS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1841, 29 August 1913, Page 7
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