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SATURDAY, ⠀ FEBRUARY 24, 1934,
DIFFERENTIAL
RENTING
A BOLD SCHEME IN LEEDS
The Housing Committee of the Leeda Corporation has just recom-¡ mended a scheme of rent robates which goes further than any at- tempt hitherto made to adjust the rents of municipal tenants to their nbillly to pay. There is every prospect that the scheme will be nassed by the City Council, and if It is the outcome will be anxiously watched by other local authorities.
No new principle is involved: the Greenwood Act expressiv em- nowered the charging of different rents to different tenants, and twenty-one towns which have built houses under this Act have sel aside part of their subaldy as a nool from which small abatements are allowed to families whose in. anccifted Come falls short of n
scale. The amount claimable is in cases limited by the fixing of
7
1 minimum rent which must be mid, whatever the circumstances of the tenant.
..
The most startling proposal in be Leeds scheme is the absence of any such limit to, the amount mfront which may be rebated. amilies by municipal houses will ve rent and rates free if their total incomu falls below following standard
Man and wife Child (under 10)
198. Oct.
4a. Od.
(10-13)
5. Od.
*+
On
the
re.
(14 and over) 83, d. The first 64, of earnings not to ha haken into account. This Sporants the first attempt by any suite body to give effect to the Andings of the recent B.M.A. The Committee
Nutrition. scale is based on the Committee's estimates of the cots of minimum diets adjusted to Leeds prices and cover necessaries to In;ten seel other than food. A man with a wife and three children aged five, seven and twelve, and drawing 29s. 34. unemployment benefit. I would pay no rent, and if he were in work would only begin to pay if his wage were more than 37s. 6d.
a week.
more
With the same wage in Birming- ham or Banbury (where the in- come dependency scales are generous than elsewhere) he would obtain the maximum abatement, and consequently pay an inclusive rent of Gs. Gd.; in York or Preston, on-the-other-hand, he would not be entitled to any rebate unless his wages were reduced or his wife had another baby. In Cambridge he could claim a reduction Gd. for each child, bringing his rent down to 68. 6d.
of
Subsidy and Rebates. Instead of setting aside only a fraction of the subsidy for the payment of rebates the Leeds Housing Committee proposes that the whole of it-averaging ba. to 6d. per house-should be used in this way. The normal rent is to be the full unsubsidised rent, and is to be charged to all who can afford it. This method of ensur- ing that only those who need relief are obtaining it is both just and economical. Ability to pay varies, not only from one family to an- other, but within the lifetime of the same family, and the scheme in- provides for corresponding. crease in rent as children grow up und their earnings are added to the household income, or if for any other reason the family becomes more properous,
Few towns have aven consider- ed the possibility of grading rents on houses built before the 1930 Act. But if the Leeds experiment works well it will almost certainly be followed by others, and a now phase in housing history will have begun.
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