Model dwellings company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/01/2019

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00:00:25 1 Background
00:01:13 2 Model dwellings
00:02:43 3 Companies
00:02:52 3.1 The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes
00:03:52 3.2 The Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes
00:05:16 3.3 The Peabody Trust
00:06:10 3.4 The Improved Industrial Dwellings Company
00:06:45 3.5 The Artizans', Labourers' and General Dwellings Company
00:08:02 3.6 East End Dwellings Company
00:09:00 3.7 Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company
00:09:43 3.8 Other companies
00:10:54 4 Other schemes
00:11:03 4.1 Baroness Burdett Coutts
00:11:50 5 Criticism and support
00:11:59 5.1 Contemporary
00:12:36 5.2 Other
00:13:32 6 Further reading
00:14:39 7 See also



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Model dwellings companies (MDCs) were a group of private companies in Victorian Britain that sought to improve the housing conditions of the working classes by building new homes for them, at the same time receiving a competitive rate of return on any investment. The principle of philanthropic intention with capitalist return was given the label "five per cent philanthropy".