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House property & its management : $b Some papers on the methods of management introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and adapted to modern conditions — John Shaqi

House property & its management : $b Some papers on the methods of management introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and adapted to modern conditionsHill, Octavia

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House property & its management : $b Some papers on the methods of management introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and adapted to modern conditions

Name: House property & its management : $b Some papers on the methods of management introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and adapted to modern conditions
Author: Hill, Octavia

Hill, Octavia

Housing -- England -- London; Landlord and tenant -- England -- London; Working class -- Dwellings; Working class -- England -- London

Having collected evidence from the personal observations of their own
members and the written statements of other investigators, and having
taken evidence also from a leading Woman Sanitary Inspector and from the
first Municipal Woman Housing Officer, the Sub-Committee adopted the
following principle for general recommendation and as a basis of their
Report:


  That the management of working-class property should be in the hands
  of persons who have had definite training in estate management and in
  Social Science.


The points considered and reported on are divided under four heads:

  (1) The Classes of Property to be managed.

  (2) The Qualifications of Manager and Assistants.

  (3) The Training necessary.

  (4) Payment.


             I. INTRODUCTORY CLASSIFICATION OF MANAGEMENT.

The Sub-Committee desire to point out that until the advent of the Woman
House Property Manager there is no evidence that any special form of
Management was considered necessary for the poorer classes of house
property.

A very general impression has been prevalent that the Management
suitable for better class property (that is, roughly, property let under
Agreement in Quarterly and Yearly tenancies) was also suited to tenement
and small house property let out in weekly tenancies. In fact, no other
system of management existed until Miss Octavia Hill took up the
management of weekly tenancies and inaugurated a system of her own.

When well-built properties are in occupation of selected tenants whose
financial and social circumstances ensure that the property will be
maintained, with few exceptions, in good condition, the work of
management is reduced to a minimum and is chiefly occupied with rent
collecting and simple and regular requirements in the way of upkeep and
repairs. The assumption in the past that nothing more ought to be needed
for property of lower grades has too often led to concentration on the
more difficult collection of rents, with a minimum attention to repairs.
No attention has been paid to economic and social conditions, and the
net result has been the production of the slum.

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House property & its management : $b Some papers on the methods of management introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and adapted to modern conditions

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