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 25 and bath. On the other side of the house is a small parlour where guests can be entertained, where the son of the house can study, or where the maiden of twenty summers can talk things over with that someone who is so much to her. Go upstairs by the well-lighted stair, and enter the three bedrooms, and, as you look at the order and beauty with which the mother has arranged her nest, think for a moment of those dark rooms you have known in a vile and insanitary slum, from which perhaps these people have moved—as from hell to heaven. And ask the mother what she thinks of it all. And then ask yourself, firstly, whether those are right who say that the working classes do not want such good houses ; and, secondly, whether the houses are not worth having. FOURTH EXCUSE That the Rural Labourer is Content with things as they are When Dr. Addison became Minister of Health and was armed by Parliament with powers to re-house the Nation, he was rightly advised that the bane of the rural labourer was the “ tied " cottage, the cottage owned by the landlord and handed over to the farmer for the use of his labourers. These cottages were generally situated on, or close to, the farms, a consider able distance from the nearest village. This system

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