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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MW THE HOUSING QUESTION 113 purchase of land was practically forbidden, and sale of bought land was urged upon Councils. By June, power to approve further contracts was taken away from Regional Housing Commissioners and reserved to Whitehall, whence very few more approvals were to issue. By the same date all rural housing was definitely and finally stopped. Mr. Lloyd George, in his Radical days, appointed a Land Inquiry Commission, which told him how deplorable were housing conditions in rural England. He has many and many a time asserted how essential it is to give healthy and happy homes to agricultural workers if the nation is to pull itself out of the slough of a C3 health status and if we are to place on a per manently prosperous footing the agricultural industry which feeds us. But he has for nine months stopped all rural housing, though he and his colleagues knew well that there were builders and workmen in the country side, available for erecting rural houses, men who would never go to the towns to build urban dwellings. “ Not one house less will be built,” the Prime Minister said in the Commons on 21st July, 1921. What a travesty of truth ! The sudden stoppage of all further contracts at Midsummer, 1921, especially penalised those far-seeing and careful Local Authorities who—in spite of pressure to the contrary from the Ministry of Health in earlier days—had refused to enter into more contracts for houses (at the extravagant prices of 19x9-1920) than the local builders could at once undertake. Such H

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