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 117 prehensive housing scheme "—“ in accordance with the housing needs of the district "—" to extend their financial assistance [i.e., to pay out of the taxes all loss beyond a penny rate] not only to the provision of new houses but to schemes undertaken in slum areas.” The Government went further. The above extract shews that they promised to build the houses them selves if the Local Authority failed to do their duty. They have not done so in a single case. In the same debate. Major Astor (now Lord Astor), Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, said with all the authority of the Government behind him :— " It is quite obvious it would be impossible to ask the occupiers of half a million new houses, which it is proposed to erect, to pay in 1927 an economic rent based on the present cost of erecting houses, charged as from that date.” And let us recall again what the Prime Minister said in 1918 :— “ At least 500,000 houses are needed to supply the legitimate demands for housing in this country, quite apart from the great question of dealing with slum areas." Who, after reading these extracts, can doubt that the Government in 1918 and 1919, meant the electors to understand that these 500,000 houses would at all costs be built and the loss borne by the Government ? Lord Robert Cecil said in the debate on 13th March, 1922 :—

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