Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851

The Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851, sometimes (like the Common 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 raise funds via local rates or Public Works Loan Commissioners to build lodging houses for unmarried working (as opposed to unemployed) 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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