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 95 sudden stop in the rise of prices synchronises with the change of Ministry and the determination not to load the industry with more work than it can undertake. . . The facts were, as set forth on page 41, that the fall of prices was brought about by Dr. Addison himself, who at the end of February, 1921, by a single adminis trative order lowered the price of houses from £950 to £800, and, by further administrative action before he retired, lowered that price about £50 more. On 27th July, Mr. Trevelyan Thomson, H.P., forced from the Minister an admission that his subordinate had misrepresented the facts. Dr. Addison also, in a letter to the Press, challenged the Minister to prove Sir Charles Ruthen’s statement, or to withdraw it with a suitable apology. No apology has been given for an untruth which was so laudatory of the present Minister. (6) The attitude of the Government to the various classes of Society. The Housing Act of 1919 authorised Local Authori ties to purchase land for housing compulsorily by making and publishing a “ compulsory order.” Such an Order had, however, to be confirmed by the Minister of Health before the Authority could gain possession of the land. Now the land, especially in rural parts, is usually in possession of various important people, whose wont it often was, when they found that the Local Authority were determined to get their land, to

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