[whitman and slater"s article] uses sources such as assessment and land registry records, newspaper articles, and local government council minutes and reports, to construct an alternative narrativeof persistent housing diversity in the face of opposition over 125 years" (2006). Tax assessment rolls, street directories, fire insurance atlases, censuses, land registry records, and other historical documents suggest otherwise" (whitzman and slater, 2006) The authors suggest there are three main narratives: well-to-do suburb , declining slum , resurgent village . But these didn"t have much to do with actual social condition. Actual conditions illustrate continuity of inexpensive rental options. A different spatial narrative might justify a different set of policiies! Politicians pronounced that apartment houses were breeders of slums, . Chicken coops, and more damaging to property values than any institution in the city (dennis 1989, 36 37 quoted in whitzman and. 1930s depression and wwii created need for more subdivided housing units.
