The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1002734533

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-15765

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Schloesser, Robert http://d-nb.info/gnd/117329711

Title:: Die konsumgenossenschaftliche Gütervermittlung, ihre Technik und wirtschaftliche Bedeutung

Place of publication:: Mannheim

Publisher:: J. Bensheimer

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (217 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Viertes Kapitel. Entwicklungstendenzen und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten

Collection:: Economics Books

38 THE HOUSING QUESTION As regards the former, what again are the facts ? The facts to-day are these : that whereas in August, 1921, 148,026 skilled operatives were being employed on Council houses, this figure had dropped in June, 1922, to 66,651. What had become of the other 81,000 ? Had they gone to private building ? Every one knows that there is less private building than months ago. What are the 81,000 doing ? d They are mostly drawing unemployment allowance. ti They are costing this country about £700,000 a month. b In addition to this it is possible that the actual number \ of unemployed building trade operatives immensely v exceeds these 81,000, for the Housing Schemes of Local Authorities have probably never employed more than / a fraction of the operatives, and it is unquestionable ii that private building has also declined, probably to ( a greater extent proportionally than has Housing. The number of operatives in the building trade in England and Wales is between eight and nine hundred thousand. Last autumn the Prime Minister announced that the Cabinet affirmed that the building trade would be kept employed up to the limit of its capacity in the Housing Schemes of Local Authorities. Let us again quote i the oft-quoted words of Mr. Lloyd George in the debate ; in the Commons on the 21st July, 1921, when he in- 1 duced members to vote for the policy of approving no more housing contracts :— ] " The present commitments will fill up the building trade for 18 months—in Scotland, I am told, for two years. What will

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