Rent a house or flat
Ordinary estates were to be built to a high specification in estate layout, building and fitments, and so were to be let at a relatively high rent. They were mostly four-in-a-block flats, each flat with its own front door, with some semi-detached and short terraces here and there. They were made of brick and roofed with tiles.
These garden suburb houses - an idea imported from the south - were let to teachers and semi-professional council employees. Examples in Glasgow were built at Carntyne, Mossend and Knightswood. The logic of these developments was that those who moved to these areas would release relatively high quality tenements for incoming working class tenants. These schemes, like red sandstone tenements, remain highly desirable places to stay. A second grade of council housing were ‘Intermediate’ schemes, aimed at skilled and semi-skilled workers who could afford the rent, still exists today in Newbank , built opposite Belvidere Hospital. At the lower end of the spectrum were Rehousing estates built to receive those cleared from slum areas of Glasgow. These were built under the 1930 (Greenwood) and 1935 Housing Acts, when the pressure to house many thousands was greater and the central government subsidy smaller.