John Wheatley

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John Wheatley was a Scottish Labour politician and key social reformer best known for pioneering large-scale public housing policy in the United Kingdom during the 1920s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Labour Party politician
Scottish politician
human
social reformer
areaOfInfluence United Kingdom housing policy
social welfare policy in the 1920s
causeAdvocated expansion of municipal housing
improved housing for the working class
social justice
countryOfCitizenship Scotland
United Kingdom
ethnicGroup Scottish
familyName Wheatley NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork politics
public housing policy
social reform
givenName John NERFINISHED
hasOccupation journalist
politician
publisher
ideology socialism
influenced development of council housing in the United Kingdom
later British housing legislation
knownFor Wheatley Housing Act of 1924 NERFINISHED
pioneering large-scale public housing policy in the United Kingdom
languageOfWorkOrName English
Scots NERFINISHED
legislativeFocus public housing
social welfare
memberOfPoliticalParty Labour Party (UK)
movement Labour movement
notableAchievement establishing framework for large-scale council house building in the 1920s
introduction of state subsidies for local authority housing
notableWork Wheatley Housing Act NERFINISHED
partOf First Labour Government of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED
positionHeld Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Secretary of State for Health (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
sexOrGender male
workLocation Glasgow NERFINISHED
London, England
surface form: London

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