Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1910 — LONDON’S ONE-ROOM FLATS. [ARTICLE]

LONDON’S ONE-ROOM FLATS.

Erection of Bulldlnga Containing Tiny Apartments Approved. By virtue of the official action of the London county council the “one-room flat” is to become an actual reality, a London dispatch says. Heretofore the average human being, even the expert who has attained proficiency in folding his physical body so as to accommodate himself to the compactness of a Harlem flat, has held the opinion that the term could not be made to apply to any residential base smaller than two rooms. But the London county council has demonstrated the fallacy bf such belief. >. The latter body has just declared for the erection of fourteen of these oneroom flats in the development of the municipal housing scheme which has to do with the council’s estate at Old Oak Lane, Acton. These single.roonl flats by formal proclamation are to be devoted chiefly to the use of single persons, hut the council's members also have promulgated the following: “That a young married couple with no children, or with one infant, shall be eligible as tenants for a one-room tenement on condition that they shall find other accommodations when the infant: reaches the age of 3 years.” The estate at Acton is a large one and the total cost of its development has been estimated at no less than 81,700,000, with the work covering a period of ten years. The present development wcheme entered upon contemplates the erection of 338 shops, cottages and flats, the cottages to have not more than five or less than two rooms. It is the intention to make this particular estate suitable for workmen earning from 86 to 87.50 a week, and the rents in consequence will range from 87 cents to 82.50 a week.