aug 16, 1904 - Workers' Dwelling Act

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The first government to build state houses was the Liberal administration of Richard Seddon. In 1905, alarmed by growing reports of extortionate rents and squalid living conditions in the working-class districts of New Zealand cities, Seddon introduced the Workers' Dwellings Act. Its purpose was to provide urban workers with low-cost suburban housing, far removed from city slums and grasping landlords. Although several hundred workers' dwellings were constructed the scheme never prospered.

Source: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/we-call-it-home/the-state-steps-in-and-out

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