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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12 PREFACE the Local Authorities, at least a further 200,000 have become necessary. It is indisputable therefore that the nation needs a million houses. This is clearly not an exaggerated estimate when one realises that in England and Wales alone, there are nearly a million dwellings consisting of two rooms or less. Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Lloyd George, in their joint manifesto of 1918, declared that “ one of the first tasks of the Government will be to deal on broad and comprehensive lines with the Housing of the People, which during the war has fallen so sadly into arrears, and upon which the well-being of the nation so largely depends.” The history of the past four years is a tragic story of the betrayal of one pledge after another. But there is no more dishonourable episode in the life of the joint Unionist and National Liberal Government than the sacrifice of the housing policy which it was pledged to carry out. It commenced with a programme which was inadequate to fulfil the lavish promises made to the electors, and in a panic of " economy ” virtually closed down its programme. The net result of the " broad and comprehensive " lines of policy promised by Mr. Bonar Law and Mr. Lloyd George was the provision of 161,442 new houses by the end of June last, and 35,971 houses under construction. The total supply of new houses is less than sufficient to meet the normal needs of the years since the war. As the leeway of the war period has not been made up, it is obvious that the housing situation to-day is worse than it was before the

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