ABSTRACT
One of the evils of much that is done for the poor springs from the want of delicacy felt and courtesy shown and that the beneficially help in any spirit different to that in which we help those who are better off. Ironically, on the most unpopular estates in areas of very low demand, such as Merseyside and Greater Manchester, few families were moving on to the estates in the survey, and existing families were as far as possible being moved off the flatted estates in these areas. Allocation through homelessness to the unpopular estates was a kind of slavery, a way of breaking a family's will to independence. In London, where homelessness was a dominant avenue of access, it was considered the main problem and was constantly thrown up by housing officials and local politicians as a major reason for the failure to keep up standards of management on problematic estates.
