Howard Marshall and others
It is estimated that since the war as much as one-sixth of the country's population has been rehoused on municipal and private housing estates. On these estates housing conditions may be better than they were formerly, but one often hears the complaint that people who are taken haphazard from all sorts of neighbourhoods in which they felt at home and who are dumped down in places where they know no one and which frequently lack such social centres as public houses, cinemas, churches, billiard and dance halls, often feel lonely. On some of the estates imaginative residents, sometimes with the backing of the local authorities, sometimes entirely on their own, have set to work and have acquired community centres providing recreation for men, women and children.
This evening, speakers with practical experience of this work will discuss with Howard Marshall some of the successes and difficulties with which they have met.