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 115 “ That," said Dr. Addison, with indignation, “is why I resigned." " On the basis of the last Census returns, I calculated that our expenditure during the present year, on Army services alone, excluding Mesopotamia and Palestine, is costing each man, woman, and child in the country £i 19s. yd. ; the Navy services are costing £1 19s. zd. per head, and the Air Service 8s. 3d. “ These three together represent a contribution from the taxpayers, if the taxation were equally distributed, of £4 7s. 3d. Mesopotamia and Palestine add another ns. 2d. The subsidy on oats, all of which was used for animal food, represents a taxation per head of 5s. “ But the expenditure on new houses is 5s. 3d.—just 3d. more than horse oats—and the expenditure on slums works out at i£d. per head.” In the latest Housing debate in the House of Commons, on March 13th, 1922, the Minister, assailed by critics from both sides of the House, took refuge in a statement that the Government had never promised the houses ! Sir Alfred Mond : “ One of the largest parts of this Debate has been occupied with the question of housing. We have had many discussions on this subject since I have had the honour of holding my present position, and they have all run on somewhat similar lines, and to some extent have been subject to the same misconception. My attention has been called to what was stated in His Majesty’s Speech from the Throne upon the housing question. I have looked up that speech. It had been stated that the Government recommended that there was a need for 500,000 houses, but the Government did not pledge themselves in that Speech to build that number of houses under the present scheme or under any other scheme. When the Hon. Member argues that the Government said that they would build 500,000 houses at the taxpayers’ expense, I say that there is nothing in

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