The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1780159447

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Author:: Marx, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118578537

Title:: Das Kapital

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: J. H. W. Dietz Nachf., G. m. b. H.

Year of publication:: 1926-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1780159595

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-188277

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Author:: Marx, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118578537

Title:: Der Produktionsprozeß des Kapitals

Volume count:: 1.1928

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: J. H. W. Dietz Nachf., G. m. b. H.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: XLVIII, 768 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Siebter Abschnitt. Der Akkumulationsprozeß des Kapitals

Collection:: Economics Books

— 62 THE HOUSING QUESTION which ought to submit and carry out a scheme failed to do so, the Ministry of Health could act for them, build the houses and charge the Local Authority with the whole (or any part) of the cost. We have already referred, in investigating the fourth excuse, to the futile conditions under which the average Rural Councillors are elected and how little they represent the working classes or consider their interests. In many Boroughs and Urban Councils the same thing, unfortunately, is true. Large numbers of Councillors did not approve of the Government Housing Scheme. When the Act first came into force in 1919 and the people of England remembered their debt to the ex-servicemen, and seemed determined to end the housing miseries of the poor, these Councillors lay low. But, as time passed and enthusiasm inevitably cooled and prices rose and difficulties accumulated, these men began to lift up their voices against what they called " senseless extravagance,” “ pandering to the poor ” and so on. They sat as Councillors, they voted as Councillors, but they argued politically on behalf of the taxpayer, not of the ratepayer. These men usurped the position of Members of Parliament ; they allowed their votes as to whether to proceed with Housing Schemes to be affected by their party politics and their private interests, and in Council after Council they killed or mutilated their housing schemes. It is true that Local Authorities had great difficulties to contend with. The Government was often very non-committal and vague as to the financial and legal

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