TECHNOBUREAUCRACY ANO CITY LIFE Table 1: Twenty Year Trend of Households Unsatisfactorily Housed, England and Wales (thousands) 1951 1961 1971 Multi-person households sharing 1,442 582 380 One person households sharing 430 448 440 Concealed households 935 702 426 Crowded households 664 415 226 Occupied dwellings that were unfit or (if fit) lacked one or more of the basic amenities . 7,500 4,700 2,846 Tota! (rounded) . 11,000 6,800 4,300 Tota! free of duplication 9,700 6,400 4,100 Total free of duplication as per cent of all households plus concealed households 69 42 24 (16) The tenure pattern of the nation's housing stock has changed dramatically during this century and it can be seen from the statistics available that not only are more older houses being sold for owner occupation but also that only a small number of houses built since 1945 are for private rental. The number of houses in the publicly owner rented sector (loca! authorities and New Towns) ha increased substantially since 1914. « In the nineteen seventies questions of tenure have pervaded discussions of housing policy; but this is comparatively recent. Before 1944 renting was the predominant tenure for all kinds and standards of housing other than very largest. So little interest was taken in owner occupation that no contemporary figures exist about the number of owner occupiers » (17). (16) Housing Policy, Technical Volume Part I, HMSO, London 1977, p. 36. {17) HMSO, op. cit. Part. I, p. 37. 21
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