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 27 Now, Rural District Councils are composed very largely of farmers. And farmers have a very sharp eye to their own interests. That is why they get elected on the Councils. The farmers did not take kindly to Dr. Addison’s new-fangled ideas. Only too often they opposed the housing scheme altogether. In parts of England more than half the Rural Councils have done practically nothing to house their ratepayers, to whom they are responsible, and whom by Act of Parliament they are bound to see housed efficiently— not at the expense of the local rates, but at the expense of the Treasury. Practically nowhere have they done very much. And when they were asked why they did so little they usually replied: " The labourers don’t want these houses : they’re quite well enough off at present.” It may be said: “ Why then do the labourers not vote such councillors out of office ? ” 0 Sancta Simplicitas ! Those who say that know little of Eng land and less of rural England. Few labourers know much about Council voting, even in this year of grace. Nor is there as a rule any other candidate to vote for. A labouring man in the country generally cannot afford the time and money to get elected and attend Council meetings in his own working hours. He shakes his head a bit, but accepts the situation as ordained by Providence, as his father did before him. The farmer is again returned in an uncontested election, and sets himself to do little else but keep down the rates.

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