The Housing Act 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 39) otherwise known as the Greenwood Act, is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It encouraged mass slum clearance and councils to set to work to demolish poor quality housing and replace it with new build. Subsidies for general housing, were given, these were calculated on the number of people rehoused not the number of properties demolished. "Back-to-back" housing had finally ended.
This was an act of the MacDonald minority government. The minister to steer it through the house was Arthur Greenwood.
The whole act, except subsection 26(5) and sections 27, 43, 44, 46, 64 and 65, were repealed by section 190 of, and the twelfth schedule to, Housing Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 51), which came into force on 1 January 1937.
Section 27 and 43âÂÂ46 of the act were repealed by section 59 of, and the sixth schedule to, the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 42), which came into force on 23 October 1958.