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 in class—that the houses should be sold to the highest bidder. The Coalition Government has accepted this proposal, the inevitable result of which would be the ejection of the present working-class tenants and their replacement by better-off people. It is true that on 13th March, 1922, Sir Alfred Mond told the House of Commons that he would never be responsible for allowing their sale under conditions which would involve turning the tenants out. But how comes it that the Geddes Committee a month before reported as follows:— " The Minister of Health is in agreement with us as to the desirability of selling as many houses as possible'’ . . . but points out that the Minister has no power to make the sales effective.” When the Minister said this he knew well that no one would buy a house if the tenant was to be kept on at an uneconomic rent, and the payment of an economic rent for such houses is of course out of the question for the working classes. All he seemed to want was power to compel sale. It is fairly clear that by March 13th Sir Alfred Mond had realised which way the wind was blowing, and had set his sails accordingly, a fact which does more credit to his wisdom than to his courage. It is notable that on the 8th August, 1921, Sir Alfred Mond had told the House of Commons that he was giving every encouragement to Local Authorities to sell their houses. He added that this was subject to their maintenance as houses for the working classes.

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