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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ii4 THE HOUSING QUESTION authorities now find that they are refused leave to build further houses, while their less provident neigh bours are allowed to complete houses at the high contract prices which obtained many months before. No wonder Councils are suspicious of Whitehall. Similarly with regard to the treatment of England and Wales, Scotland is to be allowed Z years to com plete ; even the Dagenham scheme in London has been given 5 years. But the rest of England and Wales has been stopped dead. And on nth August, 1921, in the House of Commons, the Minister refused definitely to allow to England and Wales the same privileges of extension as had been secured by Scotland. It is constantly stated that the Nation cannot afford the money for these houses. This fallacy has been dealt with on page 36, but it is worth while contrasting the amount spent on housing last year with that spent on armaments and on our new Oriental lands ( and militant policy. Dr. Addison, the late Minister of Health, said in August, 1921 :— " As an Englishman, I am ashamed that it should be necessary to give addresses of this kind in order to stir up the British Govern ment to keep its promises. " Is the Government of this country to be based on principle and on the fulfilment of its pledges solemnly given to the people ? ' he asked. " This is the third year of a victorious peace. And the Govern ment are proposing to spend in the year 1921-1922 £204,000,000 on war services and £200,000 on the reduction of slums. " in other words, they are proposing to spend a thousand times more on war services than on the improvement of slums.

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