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 107 "The housing problem in the villages is aggravated rather than eased by anything which has been done. [He was writing two years after tie passing of the Housing Act, 1919. j Insanitary and ruinous cottages have gone further to decay. Overcrowding is insufferable. Public opinion has been roused and when the truth is known it will be exasperated.” Colonel Saltmarshe, a well-known Chairman of a Rural Council in Yorkshire, has said very much the same thing. So have hundreds of other Councillors in Rural Districts. As 1920 drew to a close the public began to distrust the Government’s intentions. They knew the malig nant forces at work to kill the housing schemes. But the Government continued to protest that it was not changing its policy. For instance, on December 9th, 1920, Mr. Chamberlain was speaking in the National Expenditure Debate. He stated that many reforms, in themselves desirable, would have to be stopped for lack of money, and that spending departments had been instructed that schemes involving expenditure were to be stopped. Mr. Pemberton Billing : " Does that mean that the municipal housing schemes are to be stopped ? " Mr. Chamberlain : " No, Sir.” On 6th April, 1921, Dr. Addison stated that in ac cepting another office (Minister without Portfolio instead of Minister of Health) he had been assured that there would be no change of policy pursued by the Ministry.

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