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 57 did not really begin till the autumn of 1919. By the Spring of 1922, 100,000 houses are nearly completed. This rate compares well with most pre-war years, taking into account the reduced numbers and output of operatives and the abnormal demand for private building and repairs after the war. The twelfth excuse is, as has been remarked, the private property of Sir Charles Ruthen, whom Sir Alfred Mond, his ally in South Wales, appointed Director General of Housing. At an address which he gave in January, 1922, to the Society of Architects, of which he was then (but by desire of the Society no longer is) President, he said, firstly, that the prime responsibility for the failure of the Government Scheme rested on the shoulders of architects, and, secondly, that architects had profiteered in their schemes. There was a prompt rebuttal of these remarkable charges. The following letter in The Builder, February 10th, 1922, from a late Housing Commissioner, may be quoted :— Architects and Housing. " Sir,—With reference to the charges brought by Sir Charles Ruthen, Director General of Housing, against the architectural profession, I ought to narrate what was my experience while Housing Commissioner from March, 1919, to September, 1921 :— “ (a) The plans, &c., submitted by architects for the local authorities in the Region were very rarely in excess of the standard set in the ' Manual for State-Aided Houses ’ issued by the Ministry of Health in 1919, and in the model form of specification similarly issued.

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