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The act was, in part, [2] a result of a rent strike which had taken place in Glasgow between 1914–15 as landlords sought to capitalise on the large influx of people into Glasgow that the promise of war and munitions work had brought into Glasgow. At its peak the rent strike involved as many as 20,000 people with its influence extending to ...
The design was meant to echo the structure of a traditional Glasgow Tenement lying on its side. Each of the 7 levels comprises 18 homes – 6 upstairs two-bedroom flats, 6 downstairs two-bedroom flats and 6 single one-room flats with level access off the main corridor. [2] They have full kitchens and bathrooms the same as the two-bed flats.
In Govan in March 1915, a landlord attempted to evict a woman in response to her rent debt of £1 (equivalent to £101 in 2023). [3] In response, hundreds of angry neighbors led by John Wheatley , a socialist politician and member of the Independent Labor Party (ILP) , blocked the way into her apartment, which prevented the evictors from ...
Measuring affordable housing is tricky. Different organizations look at different things: some at buying homes, others at renting apartments. Many U.S. studies, for example, only consider the average rent of a two-bedroom apartment, regardless of location or quality. This can make housing look more expensive than it actually is for many people.
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The city is known for its tenements, [1] where a common stairwell is informally known as a close. [2] [3] These were the most popular form of housing in 19th- and 20th-century Glasgow and remain the most common form of dwelling in Glasgow today. [4]
Wheatley Homes Glasgow (formerly Glasgow Housing Association or GHA) is the largest social landlord in Scotland with 40,000 homes across Glasgow. [1] Wheatley Homes Glasgow is a not-for-profit company created in 2003 by the then Scottish Executive for the purpose of owning and managing Glasgow's social housing stock.
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