1 сент 1900 г. - Municipal Corporation Act - passed

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The Municipal Corporation Act gave local
authorities power to control the space around buildings to draw up controls
on the amount of cubic air space in bedrooms and living rooms, and to
stipulate the number of people allowed to occupy bedrooms. It also allowed
for the demolition of slums and their replacement with parks and open areas.

The Municipal Corporation Act also had clauses which provided for
the construction of public housing for the first time by local authorities. Again
the provisions were there not to provide housing for the very poorest urban
dwellers but for the casual and unskilled workers for whom the suburban
land and housing intended for the respectable skilled worker was too
expensive and too far from town. The destitute in the worst slums were still
to be serviced by indoor and outdoor relief. The legislation did recognise the
needs of the casual unskilled worker in the provision for lodging houses; this
was to be the only time until the 1980s that this kind of housing need was
recognised

Source: https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_94029549/Wai%2060%2C%20A002.pdf

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