STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1291, sig. 109-4/1045

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English Translation

3 55. Housing and settlement office. In order to effectively combat the distressing housing shortages in Prague, the new organisational plan provided for a special housing and settlement office, through which the construction of urban residential and settlement buildings is planned and carried out, the entire housing ownership of the city is also managed and the general housing provision is to be operated through housing mediation. The city administration has the intention to transfer the ban and the administration of all urban housing and settlement buildings, including the old property, into a society to be formed in the foreseeable future, which is to be founded by the city and supported by capital. Only the preparation of the annual housing programme, including drawing up plans, drafts and drawing up drawings and general housing mediation , will remain with the city administration . In the housing group, which is to be named according to the new organization plan in the "housing and settlement office", all the aforementioned tasks have so far been summarized. 2 and 3. These forces are reinforced by contract workers. The shops of the housing and settlement office can be continued until the foundation of the urban housing and housing company by the up-to-date staff. The extent to which civil servants and employees of the city will be employed in the proposed company and to what extent the company will employ its own forces is not yet reliable. However, it is not at all appropriate for the tasks which the company is to take over, now