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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■ ■ I a a - Wv * * " VWv »> ' ' >> xS-X-t - THE HOUSING QUESTION 105 Listen to the sort of thing that electors used to be told by the present Coalition Government:— Minister of Reconstruction, 1918 : " One of our greatest and most urgent tasks after the war will be to secure good and healthy homes for all.” Mr. Lloyd George : “ At least 500,000 houses are needed to supply the legitimate demands for housing in this country, quite apart from the great question of dealing with slum areas.” Mr. Lloyd George, May, 1920, to the City of London:— ” The interests of public health and humanity are at stake. . . . Adequate housing will ensure happy homes, which are the surest guarantee any country can provide against agitation and unrest." Mr. Bonar Law, on the same occasion:— “ If we did not make every effort to improve the condition of the people we would have a sullen, discontented and perhaps angry nation, which would be fatal in the last degree to trade, industry and credit.” Here, then, by the Government’s own confession, is a principal cause of the disaster which has overtaken our trade. It is the failure of the Government to keep faith with the people in housing. Here is an extract from a Ministry of Health paper advocating Housing Bonds, in March, 1920 :— “ Do You Want to Feel that Your Money is Doing Good ? “ The proceeds of Local Bonds will be used for construction of dwellings to remedy the appalling social conditions due to the overcrowding caused by the present shortage of houses for the working-classes.''

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