The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1023104237

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-61777

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The housing question

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (125 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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9 6 THE HOUSING QUESTION write, or get a still more influential friend to write, a pleading and private letter to the Minister or one of his higher officials. The success of these efforts was usually remarkable. Very rarely in such cases was the Local Authority’s compulsory order confirmed. In other ways too the present Government and its Ministers of Health have proved respecters of persons. There is a well-known member of the House of Lords, a considerable political personage, who built a house at the time when the Government was giving a subsidy to private builders. Unfortunately, this house was not large enough to comply with the Ministry’s schedule of requirements as to size of rooms, etc., and the Local Authority’s surveyor was unable to grant the certificate, without which the subsidy was not payable. So the noble owner, who had already begun the house without notifying the Council as required by their by-laws, called upon the Minister, who directed the Local Authority to grant the certificate. The Local Author ity naturally asked what was to be done in the case of other less aristocratic house-builders whose certificates had been refused on similar grounds. No reply was given to this, but the Minister proceeded to reduce the requirements of his Department’s schedule in order, one must suppose, to meet the case of the impoverished nobleman. Even then difficulties arose, as the new schedule was not retrospective and therefore did not cover the case of the unhappy peer; nor were the bedrooms large enough to comply with the reduced schedule. However, a little thing like that does not

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