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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PART IV The Main Indictment against the Government The working classes, the men who fought and worked for their country in the war, and every elector of Great Britain, should concentrate their forces in order to drive home the main indictment against this Coalition Government. That indictment is that they have stopped housing, left the poor in their slums and misery, increased to an intense degree the unemploy ment and suffering in the country, and have broken faith with the voters who, on the strength of their promises of homes for heroes, returned them to power in 1918. The Government say they are not guilty of these things. What then are the facts ? The 1919 Housing Act laid a statutory duty upon each Local Authority to investigate and report its housing needs, and to carry into effect a housing scheme equal to meeting those needs. It is written in black and white in the Act. It is also written in black and white in the Act and in its financial regulations (which were drawn up by the Ministry of Health and approved by the Treasury and the House of Commons) that any “ loss" on these schemes, new houses and slum clearance alike, should be paid for out of the taxes, after the Local Authority had contributed a penny 103

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