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 u6 that Speech to warrant any statement of that kind. I defy anybody to find anywhere a statement that the Government said that they would, regardless of expense and regardless of national finance, build 500,000 houses. . . Let us refer to the Second Reading debate of the Housing Bill, 1919. Dr. Addison, the then Minister of Health, speaking for the Coalition Government, of which Sir Alfred Mond was a member, and therefore equally responsible with Dr. Addison himself, said:— “ . . . We propose that our financial assistance, to which I will refer in detail, shall extend not only to the provision of new houses on cleared ground, but to schemes undertaken in slum areas, or with regard to unsatisfactory houses. “ The power is asked where a local authority defaults to either prepare a scheme or build the houses ourselves, and if that were the conduct of an Oriental potentate, I daresay we should have less trouble in the East. Let us come to the proceedings of the Industrial Conference the other day and what did they say ? In the Report signed by both employers and employed, that conference, on page 9, contains the following :—' In order to meet the present crisis, the Committee recommend that the Government should without delay proceed with a comprehensive housing programme. . . . The Committee urge that where the local authorities fail to utilise their powers to provide suitable housing accommodation the Local Government Board should take the necessary steps for the erection of suitable houses in the area of the authority, and special powers if necessary to compel authorities to act in accordance with the housing needs of the district.’ That is exactly what is in the Bill.” “ That is exactly what is in the Bill ! " There is the whole thing in a nutshell. The Bill, said Dr. Addison and the Government, proposed to carry out a “ com-

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