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will be full. This will mean that if the present policy continues, public housing must be consumed by transferring tenants of temporary housing away from these areas in order to make space available for the next generation of temporary housing area tenants.

By 1980/81 the old type of Temporary Housing Area will have been phased out and replaced by the better version in which the tenants are provided with a part-built structure. Temporary Housing Areas are, of course,

expensive in cash terms and uneconomical in terms of land

However, they will have to be retained until sufficient public housing is available to meet these needs.

use.

Redevelopment

Projections show that it will take until 1992

to complete the task of modernizing the Mark I and II estates if the present rate of redevelopment is maintained. The redevelopment process also consume s a quantity of new housing over and above that actually produced on the sites of the former Mark I and II blocks.

Squatter Control

The work of squatter control is difficult to quantify so that the production of charts and graphs is not very meaningful. This year the discussion will centre around a few important photographs and a map.

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