BRITISH SOCIAL HOUSING AND THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR |
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| Authors: | Robert Whelan |
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| Affiliation: | Deputy Director of Civitas: the Institute for the Study of Civil Society and the editor of Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers 1872–1911 |
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| Abstract: | Housing for the poor was a thriving part of the voluntary sector in the nineteenth century, providing thousands of homes through hundreds of societies without subsidy. It was undermined by state action which has effectively driven other providers from the field. |
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