Urban Housing in Ireland Report 1914 A diagram report 'showing how one third of the Irish budget surplus may be applied to removing the slums of Dublin and other cities and towns in Ireland. The purpose of the diagram is to show that provision must be made by the State to bridge the difference between the economic rent and that which the tenant can afford to pay in the earlier years of Urban building schemes. Owing to the operation of interest charges the economic rent of workers dwellings is highest at the moment when the tenant is least able to bear the cost...it is proposed to reverse this order. Diagram shows projections of economic rents from 1915-1960. Signed by E.A Aston (activist in matters of housing and planning, journalist and founder of the Housing and Town Planning Association of Ireland). 12 May 1914