Which 1875 UK Act, championed by Home Secretary Richard Cross, gave local councils sweeping powers to clear slums and build improved housing?

Long before council estates became part of the British landscape, Victorian legislators were already wrestling with overcrowded, unsanitary city centres. One landmark Act gave town halls real muscle to tear down the worst of it.

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