Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851 Explained

Short Title:	Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851
Type:	Act
Parliament:	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:	An Act to encourage the Establishment of Lodging Houses for the Labouring Classes.
Year:	1851
Citation:	14 & 15 Vict. c. 34
Royal Assent:	24 July 1851
Repealing Legislation:	Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890
Status:	repealed
Original Text:	https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DVpDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA98

The Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act 1851^[1] (14 & 15 Vict. c. 34), sometimes (like the Common Lodging Houses Act 1851) known as the Shaftesbury Act, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is one of the principal British Housing Acts. It gave boroughs and vestries the power to raise funds via local rates or Public Works Loan Commissioners to build lodging houses for unmarried working (as opposed to unemployed) people.^[2] The Act takes its name from Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury.

References

• Robert Anstruther Strange. Lodging Houses Acts. The Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, and the Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act, 1851. Shaw and Sons. Fetter Lane, London. 1851. Google Books.

Notes and References

1. This short title was conferred on this Act by section 1 of this Act.
2. A. J. Scott, The Urban Land Nexus and the State (London: Pion, 1980), table 10.1.