Ferkai András: Housing Estates - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)
The Civil Servants' Estate
sonable and that having a fine, leafy residential quarter was in the interest of the city, too. Lying before the Housing Commission of the municipality was a report made by Ambrus Neményi, who recommended that the city support the construction of detached houses to improve the housing conditions of the middle classes. This passage of the recommendation was added to the proposed bill. That was how the general assembly passed the decision, in October 1884, to let the Society have the area for one, instead of the market value of eight, korona per square fathom. It was stipulated that only one- or two-storey detached houses must be built on the plot, each with a maximum of two flats, one of which was to be occupied by a civil servant involved in the construction project. The property was neither to be sold nor mortgaged without the consent of the municipality. The decree obliged the Society to disburse the entire price in one sum in advance, divide the area into plots, arrange for landscaping operations, and have new streets appointed at its own expense but under the supervision of the municipality. Finally, the decree pledged that the municipality would relinquish further parts of the neighbouring lands for the same purpose if the area was duly built upon within a year. The Society accepted the conditions and the deal was done. The property, making up two thirds of the land occupied by the civil ser■ Street on the Civil Servanti' Zitate with homed built in the hint phaie 12
