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Wheatley Homes Glasgow (formerly Glasgow Housing Association or GHA) is the largest social landlord in Scotland with 40,000 homes across Glasgow. [1] Wheatley Homes Glasgow is a not-for-profit company created in 2003 by the then Scottish Executive for the purpose of owning and managing Glasgow's social housing stock.
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Ballot Measure 47 was an initiative in the U.S. state of Oregon that passed in 1996, affecting the assessment of property taxes and instituting a double majority provision for tax legislation. Measure 50 was a revised version of the law, which also passed, after being referred to the voters by the 1997 state legislature.
The Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5.c. 35) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom.. The act built upon the previous Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919, by increasing government subsidies to be paid to local authorities to build municipal housing for rent for low paid workers from £6 to £9.
Property taxes for other purposes were capped at $10 per $1,000 per year. Thus, the total property tax rate would be 1.5% at the end of the five-year phase in period. [2] The measure transferred the responsibility for school funding from local government to the state, to equalize funding.
John Wheatley died on 12 May 1930, at age 60. Wheatley Housing Group (Scotland's largest registered social landlord) and John Wheatley College (now Glasgow Kelvin College) in Glasgow are named after him. His nephew, John Thomas Wheatley, became a Labour MP for Edinburgh East in 1947 and Lord Advocate.
Hutchesontown is an inner-city area in Glasgow, Scotland. Mostly residential, it is situated directly south of the River Clyde and forms part of the wider historic Gorbals district, which is covered by the Southside Central ward under Glasgow City Council.
This gridiron plan, building forms and the architectural detailing would be copied by many smaller towns throughout Scotland, although rendered in locally quarried materials. [42] With industrialisation Glasgow became the "second city of the Empire", [43] growing from a population of 77,385 in 1801 to 274,324 by 1841. [44]