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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112 THE HOUSING QUESTION Such maintenance after sale is, of course, impossible and he must have known it. In 1920, the Government proposed to increase the erection of working-class houses by giving a subsidy to private builders. What was the result ? By the Minister’s admission at least 70 per cent, of these houses are now occupied by well-to-do people. The pressure put on Local Authorities by the Trea sury to increase rent has, where it has been given way to, had just the same effect. The working classes go out and the middle classes take the houses. If the present Government can bring it about, the great Housing of the Working Classes Act of 1919 will have had as its result a subsidy to the middle classes or to speculative builders who can buy back the subsidised house at half the price for which they or their friends built them. On 20th July, 1921, the Minister told the House of Commons that 27,000 acres had been acquired through out England and Wales for housing schemes, of which only 20,000 were needed for the schemes he was pre pared to approve. Much of the remaining 7,000 acres have been fully developed with roads and sewers and are now to be left derelict, the grass growing over the land and roads alike. Hardly a policy for a Government professing economy to follow. While members of the Government were making the protestations of innocence which we have recorded above, their Minister of Health was hard at work “ stopping the train.” In January, 1921, further

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