Report - Hackney Housing Investigated
Object
Report
Production date
1984
Object number
2025.1
Physical Description
Booklet, bound, 48 bound pages. Pink cover with red text and collage and black and white photographs of housing buildings and estates in Hackney. Logo of a white and black hands holding one another (logo of the Commission for Racial Equality) in top let corner.
Object history
In 1984 a report into Hackney Council revealed that Caribbean, African and Asian people were offered inferior accommodation to white people. Following the report, councils across the country changed their housing policies.
Associated Person
Peter Kahn (Owner)
Associated Place
Material
Paper
Dimension
Width (Cover): 210mm
Height (Cover): 148mm
Depth: 3mm
Height (Cover): 148mm
Depth: 3mm
Credit line
Cover design by Claudette Wajnrych
Photography by Virginia Turbett, Colin Hann
Photography by Virginia Turbett, Colin Hann
On display?
No
Inscription
Hackney Housing Investigated
Summary of a Formal Investigation Report
Commission For Racial Equality
Summary of a Formal Investigation Report
Commission For Racial Equality