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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16 3- 5- 10. ii. 12. IZ. 14. The Fourteen Excuses are as follows:— Page That the working-classes do not need the houses 17 That the working-classes do not want such good houses 22 That the Government houses are not worth having 22 That the rural labourer is content with things as they are 25 That the working-classes cannot afford to pay the rent - 28 That the cost will be ruinous - - - - 32 That the necessary capital cannot be found - 32 That more houses cannot be built for lack of labour ----- - 37 That the operatives of the building trades are generally idlers, whereas building contractors have been content with a normal profit - 37 That a Housing bureaucracy is ignorant, idle, and expensive *53 That control by Government and Local Author ities is necessarily slow and inefficient - - 53 That the Architects are mainly responsible for the failure of the Government Housing Scheme 53 That private enterprise sufficed in the past and should suffice to-day ------ 59 That Local Authorities, which say they do not want houses, know best and should be let alone 60

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