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In London, the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes (MAIDIC) was a Victorian-era, philanthropically-motivated model dwellings company. The association, established in 1841, was fore-runner of the modern housing association which sought to provide affordable housing for the working classes on ...
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in improving working-class housing. The Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes (MAIDIC) was the first organization to be founded in response to the London housing problem.15 As with other organizations to follow, MAIDIC wished to provide more salubrious and affordable working-class accommodation.
LMA/4025. Scope and Content: Records of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes. The minutes ( LMA/4025 /01) describe in detail...
Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes This page summarises records created by this Organisation The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.
This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London. The minutes (LMA/4025/01) describe in detail the foundation of the Association, its aims and objectives. They document its...
The movement started in a small way in London, with the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes and Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes finding difficulty in raising sufficient capital to build commercially viable projects.
For that Society, and later for the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, Roberts designed a number of buildings that represented innovations in workers' housing, including the houses in Lower Road, Pentonville, London (1844) and the famous model dwellings in Streatham Street, Bloomsbury ...
