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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i8 THE HOUSING QUESTION the needs as statutorily reported by Local Authorities in 1919 after detailed investigation. Does Sir Alfred Mond run his own business by cal culations such as these, or had he his tongue in his cheek when he palmed off those figures on to an innocent House of Commons ? Early in 1921, the Minister, following in this respect the example of the Unjust Steward, wrote down by departmental ukase the needs of Local Authorities (which had been carefully investigated by the Councils) to a figure more convenient to the Treasury. This was done without consulting the Local Authorities themselves. The results were somewhat unfortunate as it was found that the true needs could hardly be reduced at all. Indeed, owing to the lack of progress of the building programme, they had in many places grown considerably. The Minister therefore took the easy course of wiping off the slate all houses needed to replace unfit houses and insanitary areas—thus reducing the needs by one half ! At the beginning of 1921 the official newspaper of the Ministry, Housing, proclaimed that the needs had been greatly over-estimated, citing as evidence the annual report of the Registrar General, who had said that :— " As the estimated population for 1919 is 700,000 in excess of that of the last census, it would only require (apart from replacement of defective houses) a net addition of 140,000 houses for the whole period 1911-19 to maintain the 1911 average.” The Ministry carefully ignored the vital words— those in the parenthesis —and the Registrar-General

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