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[[Category: Architectural Periods]]
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In the twenty years before 1939, 3,998,000 new homes were built, 1,112,000 by local authorities and 2,886,000 by private enterprise. A start had been made on clearing slums, in 1939 it was estimated that 245,000 slum houses had been demolished or closed and only 255,000 new houses or flats built as replacements<ref>'The Working-Class Owner-Occupied House Of The 1930s' Alan Crisp M.Litt, Oxford Thesis, 1998</ref>.

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