Whether a man or woman, the Committee are of opinion that the Manager should be properly trained under managers of accepted standing, should thoroughly understand the finance and law involved, should be of recognized efficiency for superintending repairs and upkeep, and should be well-versed in the social problems of the day and the methods of dealing with them. A word should be added on personality. The more social and industrial difficulties are represented on an estate the greater will the prominence of the personal element be. Whatever the class of property, the personal qualifications of the manager are of importance: tact and consideration are always necessary. But the successful redemption of a slum area will demand specially strong personal qualifications, with wide sympathies and broad outlook, and, just as some learned people never make good teachers, so some human temperaments will never produce good managers, however much “trained.” The Sub-Committee feel that, on the whole, the splitting of the management under separate Departments is inadvisable. Where such division has succeeded in the past, it has done so largely because a former (pre-war) selection of tenants has kept the most difficult problems of management away from it. In bad areas it is most important that there should be one Head in as direct contact with the Estate as possible, responsible for upkeep and repairs as well as rent collecting and selection of tenants. III. TRAINING. Now that Housing has taken a foremost place among the questions of national importance, it is recognized that the standard of good housing cannot be attained unless accompanied by skilled management. From 1864, when Miss Hill began her work, house property may be said to have been managed on the two systems already indicated. The one—the more general—followed by men qualified by the Examinations held for Surveyors and Estate Agents. The other followed by women qualified by a high standard of education and by special training in Social Economics. The training of the men has been thorough on technical, financial and legal lines, if too stereotyped and narrow in outlook. The training of the women has not been thorough enough on the technical side, and has therefore, perhaps, over-emphasized the social side. In the opinion of the Sub-Committee an attempt should be made to combine the two courses.