ABSTRACT
Providing adequate housing for the large working populations of the great cities has been a problem since those cities came into existence, and has remained probably the most politically contentious, most studied and most intractable urban problem since long before the emergence of an inner city policy. Housing was top of the list of ‘policy changes to assist inner areas’ in the annex of the Inner City White Paper (1977), even though in practice economic regeneration has taken the larger share of Inner City Programme resources. This chapter examines the main characteristic of the inner city housing situation, measures for improving housing conditions and the prospects for the future.
