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 21 It is true that if needs were re-investigated some areas would to-day show a decrease. But the contrary would be true in other areas, especially in a vast number of country villages, where houses were much needed, yet were not proposed in the original Surveys of Local Authorities. The Minister told the House of Commons on 13th March, 1922, that the Surveys of Local Authorities were not serious. Why does he say that ? His Department puts Local Authorities to immense trouble and then he ignores and insults the results they arrive at. NOTES ON THE FOREGOING. (1) The following interruption by the Minister of Health, Sir Alfred Mond, during the speech of Lord Robert Cecil in the House of Commons, on 13th March, 1922, is illustrative of his mind :— Lord Robert Cecil : "... There were five years during which no houses were built. Then it was said with a good deal of force that the ordinary number of houses which were built in every year was, I think, 80,000, and therefore in five years, since no houses were built, you would expect a shortage of 400,000. Add to that the already proved shortage, which I say, and many of my Hon. Friends opposite say, was due very largely to the unfortunate experiment in land taxation—but whatever it was due to, which is not the point for the moment, there was a shortage of houses before the war. If you add to that shortage the 400,000 which were not built during the war, you come very near the 500,000, which the Right Hon. Baronet regards as such a ridiculous figure.” Sir A. Mono : " What about the number who were killed ? ”

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