ABSTRACT
Inadequate housing is concentrated in the inner, older areas of cities. This chapter looks at the incidence of two main forms of housing disadvantage — overcrowding and lack of basic amenities — among the households of Stockwell and Folie-Méricourt. As with incomes, we try to place our local findings in a national and metropolitan context. We begin by outlining the historical origins of the housing problem, and the attempts to solve it, in the two countries. We end by comparing the changing pattern of housing tenures at the three geographical levels.
