Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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228 ELBERFELD. per cent, ( instead of 200) of these rates respectively. The etfect of the double tax is that small incomes were liable to the following taxes : — Income. State Tax. Municipal Tax. Together. Exceeding £21 » £33 £45 £5210a. £60 £67 10s. £75 £8210s. £90 to £33 inclusive „ £45 „ „ £52 10s. „ „ £60 „ „ £67 10s. „ „ £75 „ „ £82 10s. „ „ £90 „ £105 £ S. dm 0 6 0 0 9 0 0 12 0 0 16 0 110 16 0 111 0 £ s. d. 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 12 0 0 18 0 14 0 1 12 0 2 2 0 2 12 0 3 2 0 £ s. d. 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 18 0 17 0 1 16 0 2 8 0 3 3 0 3 18 0 4 13 0 The municipality itself owns some 60 working-class dwellings of different types, most of which were built over 20 years ago. The oldest of the houses are of two stories and are constructed of brick, faced with wood. They have mostly four rooms, two of good size and two smaller, and each house has a patch of garden and a cellar, but no special washplace. The dimensions of the rooms are as follows :— (1) I Length. Width. 14 ft, 7 in. 12 ft. 12 ft. 2 in. 13 ft. 12 ft, 6 ft. 6 in. 9 ft, 9 in. 9 ft. 9 in. Height. 9 ft. 1 in. 9 ft, 1 in. 9 ft. 1 in. 9 ft. 1 in. These houses were erected at a time when home-weaving was commoner than now, and one of the rooms was intended for a loom. The newer houses are built more substantially and with greater attention to outward appearance and internal convenience ; the rooms are loftier, the approaches more spacious. A typical house of three rooms visited had the following dimensions : (1) 12 by 9 by 10 feet ; (2) 12 by 10 by 10 feet ; (3) 12 by 12 by 10 feet. The two rooms of a smaller house were both 12 by 10 by 10 feet. The rents of these tenements are somewhat below the normal rents for houses of equal accommodation, a dwelling of two rooms costing £7 per annum and one of three rooms £9, except in the attic story, where the rents are £5 and £6 10s. respectively. An agency of great public convenience is the municipal House Bureau, which was established several years ago for the purpose of negotiating dwellings for working people and small tenants free of charge. The registry was originally intended for dwellings up to a rent of £25 per annum, but this restriction has now been cancelled, though a small charge is made in the case of owners offering property above this rent. During the year April, 1904, to March, 1905, 2,400 applications were received from house-seekers against 1,767 during the preceding year, and about 1,000 dwellings are regularly on the books. The fact may be noted, as throwing light on the prevailing standard of house accommodation, that of the 1,767 persons who used the House Bureau in 1903, 193, or 10*9 per cent., sought tenements of one room ; 610, or 34 5 per cent., tenements of two rooms ; 517, or 29 - 2 per cent., tenements of three rooms ; the demand for tenements of from one to three rooms thus amounting to 74*6 per cent, of the whole. The municipal authority recently adopted an amended code of building regulations for the purpose of securing better housing conditions in the future extension of the town. The municipal area has been divided into an inner and an outer zone. In the inner zone it is prescribed that building sites may be built upon to the extent of three-quarters of their entire area. In the outer district half of the ground must be left free, and in the case of sites of

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