Common Lodging Houses Act 1851

The Common Lodging Houses Act 1851 sometimes (like the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851) known as the Shaftesbury Act, is one of the principal British Housing Acts. It gave boroughs and vestries the power to supervise public health regarding 'common lodging houses' for the poor and migratory people.[1] The act takes its name from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

References
  1. A. J. Scott, The Urban Land Nexus and the State (London: Pion, 1980), table 10.1.


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