After the Second World War, what little remained of the farmland was developed as state housing.
Some benefits were removed such as the unemployment benefit for under 18-year olds and funding for state housing was cut back.
The hall is surrounded by 30,000 people and for most of them the state housing and welfare system is a failure.
Corstorphine is a largely residential suburb, containing a substantial amount of state housing built from the 1930s to the 1960s.
The family moved frequently until they finally obtained state housing.
Perhaps most important, she pays only $77 a month for rent in state housing.
Most of the housing is private single or 2 level dwellings with little state housing.
The state tried to solve the problem by putting Gypsies in state housing.
Those living in state housing receive only 20 percent of their pension, or, as here, pay a modest rent.
The rate of state housing was increased.