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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PREFACE There is no aspect of the social problem more funda mental than housing. The health and strength of the people, their efficiency, the quality of their family life, and even their moral standards depend largely upon the housing accommodation which is provided for them. The effects of overcrowding, of insanitary and badly equipped houses, of congested slum areas, have been the subject of detailed enquiry by Govern ment Committees, by scores of Medical Officers of Health and by many Social students. It is known that bad housing means a heavy loss of infant life, lowered vitality, the ravages of preventable diseases —in a word, an incalculable loss of human life, health and quality. All this is beyond dispute. The extent of the housing famine in town and country alike and the magnitude of the problem of slum clearance are now well known. After the war the Local Authorities in England and Wales, who after all are the best judges of local needs, estimated that 800,000 houses were required. Before the year 1910 about 75,000 new houses were built annually to com pensate for wear and tear, and to meet the normal growth of the population. If that represents the neces sary annual additions to the nation's housing accom modation, it is clear that since the investigation of ii

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