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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20 THE HOUSING QUESTION “ Our own estimate, our own figures, inadequate as we believe they are, are tor 400,000 houses here and now." Lt.-Col. Fremantle, M.P. (Chairman of the Housing Committee, London County Council, and a Coalition Member), in the House of Commons, nth May, 1921 "The requirements in the matter of housing at the present time are appalling, and it is absurd to say otherwise. It is quite certain that the general requirements—without taking into account any question as to improvement of status or condition— represent a total of something like a million houses throughout the United Kingdom. This is increasing at the rate of 70,000 or 80,000 houses a year, and we have not even got to the stage of keeping pace with that requirement, still less of making up the arrears.” Such were the admissions of the Government. Now to get at the facts :— The net needs of the country, as assessed by the Local Authorities in October, 1919, in accordance with the statutory duty placed upon them by the Housing Act, 1919, were (according to figures supplied by the National Housing and Town Planning Council) For England and Wales ... 796,246 For Scotland H5.5 6 5 Total for Great Britain ... 911,811 From these figures must be deducted about 100,000 working-class houses built in the last 2\ years. But an addition more than equivalent to this number must be made owing to the wastage of houses and growth of population in the same period. The above net needs probably, therefore, fully hold good to-day.

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