Give explanations for the following: Why well-off Londoners supported the need to build housing for the poor in the nineteenth century.
Well-off Londoners supported the need to build housing for the poor in the nineteenth century on account of three reasons:
→ one-room houses of the poor came to be seen as the breeding ground of diseases, and hence, a threat to public health
→ Fire hazards became a worry in these over-crowded, badly ventilated, unhygienic homes
→ There was a widespread fear of social disorder, especially after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Housing schemes were undertaken to avoid a rebellion by the poor.
