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 29 Again, Sir Alfred Mond on 19th May, 1921, when meeting a deputation of the larger Local Authorities, remarked :— " In regard to houses, as with everything else, it is not what people want, but what they can pay for. . . . “ If you have these houses, have you the people to come and rent and live in them ? " Whereupon Alderman Symonds, Chairman of the Housing Committee of Manchester, felt it necessary to ask the Minister whether the Government had altered its policy of “ Homes for Heroes " into " Homes for Heroes who can pay for them ! The Minister does not appear to have replied. Why is it that Ministers of State do not take the trouble to read the regulations which their own Departments draw up ? Or is it that they do read them but would rather other people did not know about them ? The financial regulations, formulated by the Minister of Health, after the passing of the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919, approved by the Treasury, and laid on the table of the House of Commons and by it endorsed, provide that the Local Authority in first fixing the rents under an assisted scheme shall have regard to :— {a) The rents obtaining in the locality for houses for the working classes. (6) Any increase in the rent, authorised under the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest, etc.. Act.

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