Title: Cruel habitations
Description: "The book deals with the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies; and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform."--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Dwellings, Great Britain, History, Housing, Tenement houses, Working class, Urban Renewal
Places: Great Britain