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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no THE HOUSING QUESTION deputation of the Association of Municipal Corporations in May, 1921, on the needs :— “ We find that in many cases the original estimates were rather more what the idealists conceived than what the practical man considered necessary." It is in this man’s eyes unpractical idealism to propose that the women and children of this country should be taken out of the slums which disgrace our towns and given healthy houses to live in. Contrast with Sir Alfred Mond’s sneer at idealism the following words of the National Housing and Town Planning Council: " . . . The present housing policy has been criticised as a scheme evolved in a ' mist of idealism,’ and it may be readily admitted that, in comparison with the shameful neglect which characterised the period preceding the war, the housing policy was one of fine idealism. But sneers at idealism are so pro foundly unworthy of the men who fought and died for England that it is difficult to understand why they are given any currency. Kitchener’s men went singing to France in 1915 in response to the call of a national duty, and with their heads doubtless filled with ideas evolved n the same ' mist of idealism.’ Men of narrow views and atrophied sympathies may regard as of little moment the fine enthusiasm of the war. But these same fine enthusiams saved England, and men now sleeping in Flanders would feel, if they could come to life again, their honour smirched, and their sacrifice made less noble by the assumption that the pledges given concerning the future homes of the poorer members of the community can now be cynically broken. . . .’ Next consider the proposal of the Geddes Com mittee—composed of five rich men who appear some what complaisant as to the extravagances of their own

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