Rented housing

Scope and Contents INTVEEs would like to move, the district is too slummy and rough. Male INTVEE was involved with a youth club but has given up because of the behaviour of the children. They think residents are quick to complain to the corporation but won’t do anything themselves to improve the district, they don't seem to care about sweeping and cleaning. They miss having shops. Female INTVEE is quoted as saying "There are far too many children - some of the women round here breed like animals". INTVER...

Scope and Contents INTVEE is not happy with her flat or the district, there are no shops and no places for the children to play. To go out to the vans she has to take her children down several flights of stairs. There is a general feeling of isolation. She takes her children for walks quite a lot and likes the houses in Clermiston or Drylaw. She has put her name down on the exchange list. She doesn't know anyone who uses the lockers for prams on the ground floor - the doors don't go down to the floor so a lot...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives in one of the Salvesen houses, of which there are eighty, built for disabled servicemen. Each house has a plaque recording which institution or firm donated the construction money. The organisation which built his house brings him flowers in the summer and a christmas dinner. The houses are now run by the Scottish Veterans Garden City Association and tenants pay the association their rent. His house is four apartment and he pays 15/- a month. He goes to Darnaway Street to pay...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Living accommodation and standard of workmanship; behaviour of local children; early life; pensioner clubs; behaviour of young mothers; personal finance.INTVEEs live in a two-apartment new house in a block of six having moved from a house elsewhere in the area. INTVER describes the accommodation as "pretty unimaginative for 1961, but the insides are quite pleasant. The stairway was quite colourful with blue on the lower half instead of the dark green and...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Leith; borrowing; district's bad reputation.INTVEE had been shocked at the dirty condition of her house when she moved in with broken lavatory and fireplace. INTVER describes the house as now being attractive, they have put in flush doors everywhere including front door. She came from Leith which she is quoted as calling "a filthy, stinking hole". INTVER notes that this is the first criticism of Leith she has heard. INTVEE does not have a washing machine...

Scope and Contents Summary includes a description of the street and living accommodation. Other topics discussed include: Neighbourhood; money; work.INTVEE currently lives with his wife in a tenement in the city centre. They are on the priority list under the clearance scheme. They expected to get the keys to their new house in North Edinburgh in a few weeks time. They have been given no information about their new house or the area. INTVER thinks it is a neglect on the part of the corporation not...

Scope and Contents Summary includes a description of his living accommodation and outside space. Other topics discussed include: The neighbourhood and social contacts; television, cars; money.INTVEE is described as rather aggressive but not unfriendly. He lives on the ground floor of a two storey block with his wife and two children aged 15 and 12. He has older children who no longer live at home. He'd like to move if he could. His house is a four-apartment, he likes it but thinks the rent is too...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Living accommodation; family life; schools, domestic violence.Accommodation: INTVEE is a married woman with children. She has never liked the district and doesn't like the shape of the rooms in the house which are long and narrow as opposed to square. Each family is allotted a day for using the back green and she was upset if neighbours who weren't using it wouldn't let her have the extra time. The bedroom suite, sideboard-cum-cocktail cabinet and...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives in a top flat in block of eight. She was the first tenant but the rest were filled with families within a week. She likes her flat very much and also her neighbours but finds the area depresses her very much. She wanted to go to Clermiston but was told she would have to wait a long time. She had bought furniture in preparation for moving and kept it in storage. INTVER notes that there is minimum equipment, no alternative water heating system other than the fireside boiler and...

Scope and Contents INTVEEs live in one room behind a shop in a small street off Easter Road with their two children. They have lived there for six years, before that they lived in Leith. When asked about moving into their new house, wife is quoted as saying "Oh, it's just like a dream to be moving into a new house. It's wonderful". They have been on the housing list for four years but would have been eligible before that, they had thought they weren't eligible because they owned their own house. Wife is...