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Black Country Housing Group is a registered social housing association based in Birmingham and the Black Country in the British Midlands. The organisation is responsible for the provision of affordable housing with properties in excess of 2,000 homes. These properties range from newly constructed homes to established dwellings built in the 20th ...
Bromford Housing Association Limited, named after Bromford Bridge railway station in the Bromford area of Birmingham, was formed by a group of housing sector professionals in 1963. They formed a management committee run by quantity surveyor and Chairman Charles Bucknall, estate agent Robert Oulsnam [ 6 ] and solicitor Keith James.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Help. Pages in category "Housing estates in Birmingham, West Midlands" The following 4 pages are in this category ...
Florence Mary Barrow (27 January 1876 – 3 March 1964) was an English International Aid worker, Quaker and housing reform activist particularly associated with her home city of Birmingham. She co-founded the Birmingham Conference on Politics, Economics and Citizenship (COPEC) House Improvement Society that pioneered municipal slum clearance ...
Oasis Charitable Trust, commonly known as Oasis, is a United Kingdom-based Christian registered charity.It was founded by the Reverend Steve Chalke in September of 1985. . Chalke had been assistant minister at Tonbridge Baptist Church, Kent, for four y
Birmingham was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1838, after which it was governed by a body formally called 'the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Birmingham', generally known as the corporation or town council. William Scholefield became the first mayor and William Redfern was the first town clerk. The corporation absorbed ...
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
Birmingham Corporation purchased the land at Weoley Castle in 1930 in preparation for a new housing estate of 2,718 houses. [15] In March 1931 the corporation advertised the first tender for the erection of 1,200 houses in the Woodbrooke Valley section of the new estate [ 16 ] and in April 1932 another tender was advertised for 620 houses on ...