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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78 THE HOUSING QUESTION of a Local Authority, in conjunction with the Housing or Health Committee, through the protracted stages of negotiation for and valuation of land, consideration of alternative plans, questions of compensation, ob taining of tenders, and the discussion with and approval by the Ministry of all these stages up to signing of contracts with builders, would be two years. If the Government had ever been in earnest they would have encouraged Local Authorities everywhere to begin working out these details, so that they might be ready to carry out the clearances by the time sufficient new houses had been erected. (b) The removal of the review of all slum-clearance schemes from the Ministry’s Regional Headquarters to Whitehall. The Ministry’s technical and ad ministrative staff in London is totally inadequate in numbers to cope with any real volume of slum-clearance schemes. They would be choked in the bottle-neck. (c) The gross disproportion between the number of unfit houses, schemes for the demolition of which have up to date been confirmed by the Ministry, and the need of the Country. And, most important of all:— (d) The stoppage of contracts for more new houses. The Ministry have deliberately excluded in their revised statement of needs any houses to replace unfit ones. The argument therefore runs thus : Slum-Dwellers : “ When will you clear our slums ? " Minister of Health :—“ When we have built houses we can move you to.”

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