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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26 THE HOUSING QUESTION gave the farmer a double hold over his man. Not only could he, if the latter proved idle or unruly, turn him out of his job, but he could also deprive him of his home as well. With two-fold chains the labourers were held. After taking counsel, therefore. Dr. Addison in his Manual of State-Aided Houses, issued early in 1919, and in memoranda to his Staff and to Local Authorities, directed that the sites for the new subsidised houses in the rural areas were to be chosen in villages or assembled in new communities, instead of being placed on the farms. Not only for the reasons of liberty, to which we have alluded, but for this reason also, that where the house is remote from a village, although the breadwinner is near his work, the house wife becomes a lonely woman and has far to go for shopping and neighbours. The children, too, have long walks to and from school, and in bad weather have to be kept at home ; whereas, if the house is built near to others, the mother and children gain very greatly and the bread-winner, if he has a bicycle, need lose comparatively little time to get to work. And, in any case, he is only one, and the strongest, and he, too, gains through security of tenure and access to society. For, if the subsidised cottage, owned by the local Council, were built on the farm, then, although the man’s dismissal from his work would not automatically eject him from his home, yet practically it would have that result, since a house on a farm, where he could not work, would be little use to him.

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