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problems of housing coming into interwar period?
standstill fo house building due to war effort, some damages via zepplin/airship bombing
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what did DLG want?
" homes fit for heros"
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DLG act 1919?
Addison housing act 1919
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what did it do?
£200 subsidy per house built
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achieve its goals?
aim 400,000 houses, only built 200,000
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problem with?
good quality and large houses, means expensive rents so only better off workers could afford
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labour housing act?
1924 Wheatley's housing act
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entail?
increased subsidy per house
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advantage over addison's?
less expensive to build as less space
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3 bed house addisons vs wheatley's sq ft?
addison= 1000, wheatleys = 620
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how many built?
500,000
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labour later act?
1930 greenwood's housing act
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what did it do?
provide subsidies for slum clearance and their replacement
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why did it have limited affect?
suspended along with wheatley's due to great depression
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impact of these houses positive?
ownership rose, re housed from slums, and many built
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owenershpi of houses 1914 vs 1939?
1914= 10% 1939= 31%
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re housed families from slums 34-39?
1 million
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houses built by these acts by 1934?
700,000
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counter to this?
private built 2.5m suggesting lack of gov housing
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education coming into interwar years?
free until 12, balfour establishes state responsibility for secondary education but not free= poor struggle to go
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class difference in education?
wealthy sent to private prestigious eton or harrow, new unis in industrial towns seen as less prestigiois as traditional oxford and cambridge
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taylor quote?
different education for the "rulers and the ruled"- suggesting all get primry but still better for rich
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lloyd george educaiton act 1918?
fisher's education act
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what did this act do?
raised leaving age from 12-14, non attendance resulted in fines, gave scholarships for universities
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benefit to poor?
alowed them to go to uni with scholarships
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significance of hadow report 1926?
estbalsihed moderns and grammer divide+ established 11 to be theh age from primary to secondary
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position of unemployment and welfare?
high unemploument compounded upon by depression
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three acts passed?
unemployment act 1920, unemployment workers dependants act 1921 and unemployment insurance act 1922
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unemployment act 1920?
give unemployed a benefit
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who did it cover?
earners of £250 or less excluding civil servats and farm labourers
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problem with?
obnly covered people who paid for 12 weeks, then only cover 15 weeks
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unemployed workers dependanrts act 1921?
made privsions for wives and children of unemployed
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significance?
first idea of family allowance
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problem?
very small provision
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unemplomynet act 1922?
increased rates, increased time could ne claimed, claim longer than paid into
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