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Werkerswoningen) which built and later rented higher-quality houses for the working class. Their plan to improve housing on the
Zebrastraat centered on a building project designed and supervised by Charles Van Rysselberghe, the officially appointed "City Architect" of Ghent. Since accommodation in the city was very expensive, Van Rysselberghe decided to construct an apartment-styled building with three units on top of each other. This housing project is widely known as the first social housing apartment building in
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