Housing in Dublin: report of Committee on Control and Improvement of Tenement Houses

Abstract

The improvement of the Housing Conditions of the working classes in Dublin, dealt with in the Report of the Departmental Committee of the Local Government Board for Ireland, can be effected in two ways - 1) improving and better regulating existing houses, which are capable of being put in good repair, and by closing, and, if necessary, demolishing, houses which are, or are becoming, unfit for human habitation; and (2) by building new houses to accommodate those who have been or will be dispossessed from, existing houses. This Report has been prepared without waiting for the publication of the evidence taken by the Committee of the Local Government Board, and we defer the consideration of any Schemes for building New Dwellings until the full Report with Evidence, Appendix, and Maps, is available.