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 121 What the Government are going to do is pretty clear. To bring in a new Housing Bills or new financial regulations which will throw so much extra burden on the ratepayer and on the Local Council as to ensure that very little more will be done. Before the war Local Authorities could always build houses. Although the burden on the rates was then negligible, few Councils did it. Will they do it in future if it means an increased rate ? The Government knows well that every such proposal—put forward as an alternative to their explicit national undertaking of 1919—will kill housing. That is why they will propose it. What they could have done from the start and what a Government which meant business would do to-day is this :— (1) Re-affirm the housing undertakings of 1919, viz., to ensure with or without the backing of each separate Local Authority— the building of a sufficient number of working-class houses in every district in Britain to give every man, woman, and child a decent home ; and to clear the slums. (2) Take as a basis the needs submitted by the Authorities in October, 1919, viz., 911,000 for Britain ; 800,000 for England and Wales, adjusting these figures as needed for houses built since then, and for any subsequent restrictions or additions which a further investigation may show to be necessary. (3) Let the Local Authorities choose the sites for the new houses and—subject to proof of need shewn—the number on each site. t For example, the unhappy "Economy" Bill introduced to Parliament, July, 1922.

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