It encouraged mass slum clearance and councils to set to work to demolish poor quality housing and replace it with new build.

Subsidies for general housing, were given, these were calculated on the number of people rehoused not the number of properties demolished.

[1][2] This was an Act of the MacDonald minority government.

The minister to steer it through the house was Arthur Greenwood.

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