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 75 reconstruction scheme, subject to the work being done within the period prescribed by the Regulations issued under the Act. " So far as c rcumstances will permit, local authorities should begin the work now, though it may be on a comparatively small scale. They will thus acquire the necessary experience to enable them to cope with the task when the time arrives for more exten sive operations.” Dr. Addison, Minister of Health, at Exeter, Feb. 1921:— “ When other accommodation has been provided it would enable the sweeping away of a large number of slum areas.” And what during the two and a half years since the Act passed has taken place ? Not a slum has yet been cleared in the whole country. The total number of dwelling-houses in schemes of slum clearance sub mitted, including those confirmed, is “ over 4,000, with a population approximately of 20,000" (Sir Alfred Mond in the House of Commons, 13th March, 1922). It would be safe to say that the numbers confirmed amount to perhaps a quarter of the above figures— probably less. Submission to the Ministry is by no means the same thing as approval. In 2^ years therefore, an attack on the slums of perhaps 5,000 people in all has been begun. Probably only a small number even of these have reached the stage of actual commencement of clear ance on the ground. It is a long step from “ confirma tion " by the Minister to commencement of demolition. Practically speaking the Government have done nothing worth recording in slum clearance in spite of all their brave words.

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