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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THE HOUSING QUESTION 3i or because—often one regrets to say from interested and party motives—they do not wish to carry them out and desire an excuse for not building more houses. In short, the rents must, ipso facto, be such as work ing-class people can afford to pay. When Sir Alfred Mond spoke as quoted above he was permitting himself to talk nonsense. It is true that emissaries from the Treasury have frequently informed Local Councils that if they do not fix rents high enough they will lose some of the subsidy. But this is ordinary bluff and should be disregarded. Government Departments often bluff. As has already been made clear, excessive rent is not legally enforceable by the Government. As things are there is a tendency to allow the working classes to be defrauded of these houses, which by Act of Parliament were intended for them, and to allow the houses to become the residences of quite another class. It suits the Treasury’s book, but it is unjust, contrary to the will of Parliament, and ought to be stopped. Mr. Inskip, a Conservative Coalition Member for Bristol, said in the House of Commons, in the Housing Debate, on the nth May, 1921 :— “ What dismays me— I have made enquiries in my own con stituency—is that I am very doubtful whether the right people are to occupy the houses. . . . They were intended for the ex-service man, in the first place. He was generally the unskilled man, who gave up his own house and put his wife and children in the house of relatives, and now that he has returned he requires a house to live in. . . ,

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