Cruel Habitations (1974) looks at the pre-industrial background in which housing problems are rooted, with the decay of towns and the unsuccessful attempts to better their condition by public health reforms, by charitable agencies and by building societies – and with legislative action in Parliament towards housing reform.
Part
1. Housing in Pre-Industrial and Rural Society
1. A Bitter Cry from
Rural Britain
2. Pigs and Children: Economic Causes of the Housing
Conditions of the Rural Poor
3. Results in Housing: Design and Standard of
the Homes of the Agricultural Workers
4. Housing of the Industrial Poor in
Rural Areas Part
2. Housing and Public Health
5. Town Decay
6. Overcrowding
7. Standards of Comfort
8. Publicity for Squalor
9. A Sense of Property
10.
Reasons for the Non-Use of Existing Powers
11. The Public Health Campaign
Part
3. Housing and Poverty
12. The Recognition of Poverty
13. Rents
14.
Building Costs
15. Investment in House-Building Part
4. Private Enterprise
Housing: Whose Responsibility?
16. Employer Housing and Company Towns
17.
Building Societies
18. Freehold Land Societies
19. The Philanthropic Housing
Associations I: Octavia Hill and the Lady Collectors
20. The Philanthropic
Housing Associations II: The Model Dwellings Associations Part
5. Legislation
on Housing and the Assumption of Public Responsibility for the Housing of the
Poor
21. The Lodging Houses Acts
22. Establishing Principles
23. The Torrens
and Cross Acts
24. The Royal Commission
25. Towards Compulsory Powers
Enid Gauldie
