File. Rights of council house tenants

Reference No:
U DCL/14/4
Dates:
1948-1957
Description:
Includes press cuttings discussing a council-house tenants’ clash with police over a higher rent scheme; correspondence with the Rugby and District Trades Council discussing the potential legal case against and eviction of the substantial number of tenants from the council houses who refused to pay the higher rent; press cuttings about an entomologist and his daughter being evicted for keeping and studying cockroaches; press cuttings describing Council-related disruptions to the lives of the council house tenants, like the 'unsightly television aerials' and austerity houses for 'problem families'; press cuttings and correspondence describing the concessions made to the council house tenants, including the evicted entomologist, William Bunting, a grandmother being refused to be allowed to move in with her granddaughter despite no longer being able to live by herself, and two paraplegic war veterans threatened with eviction of higher rent schemes; correspondence discussing the defence of the Council trustees; correspondence and documents from the Tenants’ Association conceding to the protests and amending the Tenancy Regulations; press cuttings and correspondence about tenants being threatened with eviction over refusing to disclose their salary and workplace; press cuttings and correspondence discussing the variety of issues council house tenants face; correspondence and press cuttings discussing the case of tenants being subjected to unjust and unlawful requisitioning and evictions; documents and correspondence discussing the matter of canvasser trespassing on council housing estates; magazine copies of the Tenants’ Leader discussing the issues with the council and the meetings and protests surrounding the matters; press cuttings discussing evictions for menial infractions and increasing higher rent-schemes.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of Liberty (formerly The National Council for Civil Liberties)