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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io4 THE HOUSING QUESTION rate, and further, if the re-housing could not be completed in 3 years or the slum clearance in 6 years, owing to the shortage of labour, materials or other such cause, that the time might be extended by the Minister. It is true that all schemes and all extensions of time had to be approved by the Minister, but this condition was inserted in the Act, as in all similar cases, where the taxes are drawn upon by Local Councils, to prevent extravagance in detail. It was never intended by Parliament when it passed the Act, or by the Electors, that the Minister should use this power of withholding approval (at a period, be it borne in mind, far short even of the three-year period) in order to reverse in toto the whole Housing policy and stop the programme. That is what Sir Alfred Mond has done with the consent of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet The Govern ment have definitely refused since 14th July, 1921, to approve contracts for more than 176,000 houses. That is why Dr. Addison, the late Minister, resigned. The Prime Minister stated in the House of Commons on 21st July, 1921, that the withholding of approval of the further contracts would not reduce by a single house the number to be built. It was a grotesque and scandalous misrepresentation. To-day, there are 175,000 men of the building trades unemployed. That is the kind of statement the Prime Minister thinks good enough for the House of Commons and the people of England. That is why the question, “ Did the Government ever really mean business ? " admits of but one answer —they never did.

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