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Evidence of Congestion in Arab Areas in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 803. Chapter XVIII: Town Planning and The Problem of Housing : Section 2: Present Housing Needs : Part 2 |
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B. ARAB AREAS.
48. Urban areas. The Central Advisory Committee on Housing appointed in 1944 by the Controller of Heavy Industries delegated the task of collecting data regarding the housing conditions of Arab urban population to a sub-committee under the chairmanship of Mr. W. L. A. Watson, City Engineer of Haifa. This sub-committee compiled its information by means of questionnaires circulated to twenty-four urban areas containing an aggregate population of 421,660 persons. Table 11 contains a summary of the information obtained by the questionnaire and shows the present state of congestion expressed in terms of the number of room units required to reduce the density to an average of 2 persons per room.
Table 11.
CONGESTION IN ARAB URBAN AREAS.
I No. or rooms
Population at required to reduce
Name of town l 1944 density to 2 persons
per room
Gaza I 32,500--, 3,845
Ramallah 5,800 1 160
Tiberias 4,000 200
Ramle 17 ,000 793
Shefa 'Amr 4,500 262
Acre 15,000 1,600
Beit Jala 5,235 211
Jcnin 4,200 155
Jaffa 68,000 8,217
Khan Younes 10,000 1,667
Tulkarm 9,000 450
Jerusalem 56,000 6,000
Beisan 5 ,800 411
Beersheba 6,000 890
Faluja 4,625 307
Hebron 23,000 2,108
Nablus 24,000 2,700
Majdal 8,000 453
Haifa 73,000 6,874
Safad 4,000 JOO
Bethlehem 7,000 400
Lydda 17,000 400
Qalqilya 4,000 100
Nazareth 14,000 300
Total 421,660 38,503
say 38,500
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