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 55 It is no exaggeration to say that, had it not been for these officials, houses would have cost on an average £50 more than they did. Few, except the officials of Local Authorities, know the energy, patience and financial and technical common-sense brought to bear by the Government’s Housing Officials on the vast and novel problems which had to be dealt with after the war. These men had to build up their own organisation and methods. During the “ hustle" period, which lasted from the Spring of 1919 to the end of 1920, they never rested. Ten to twelve hours a day was their common lot. They were almost all ex-officers, and their clerks too were ex-servicemen. They entered the service of reconstructing England with the same keenness which they had shewn in previous years in fighting for her. They were none too well paid. The technicians—architects, quantity surveyors and the like—drew salaries distinctly below those of their brethren in private practice. And in spite of abuse they worked on. The abuse came generally from quarters which found the existence of these men somewhat detrimental to the high level of trade profits. At conferences which constantly took place between Government Quantity Surveyors and Builders to settle the prices of houses, it was no un common thing for the agreed price to be £200 or more below that tendered by the builders when they entered the conference room, and these reductions were effected without reducing materially the size and amenities of the houses.

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