ABSTRACT
It was not until the turn of the twentieth century that a real effort was made to deal with the huge legacy of poor housing handed down by the industrial revolution. In the nineteenth century a number of philanthropic individuals and organisations attempted to provide better housing for the working classes. Titus Salt ’ s village at Saltaire, near Bradford, Peabody Trust housing in London and William Lever and George Cadbury ’ s Garden Villages of Bourneville and Port Sunlight still remain as monuments to individual people who saw the benefits of decent housing for their workers.
