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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36 THE HOUSING QUESTION that can spend £140,000,000 a year (the reduced figures n< after the Geddes cuts) on the fighting services can P 1 spend £9,500,000 on making us an Ax nation, whereby Vi incidentally two private soldiers would become as good tl fighters as three of our present population can be. ei A warning may here be given against accepting 01 without investigation the statements recently circu- 01 lated by the Ministry of Health that the cost of houses is to-day is less than £400 and approaching a figure at c: which private enterprise can build for an economic f< rent without assistance. cl In the first place these abnormally low tenders are generally offered only for a few houses by an odd firm 0 or two, who have already got their plant on the ground " and wish to keep a section of their men at work for a b while. Such offers cannot be considered normal market prices until made upon a large scale. In the second place, the house for which such tenders are offered is always of a non-parlour type, and will be found also to be one with abnormally small rooms and greatly reduced amenities (as recently encouraged by the Ministry), far below the standards set by the Ministry and by informed public opinion in 1919. And finally to refute the fallacy that the capital cannot be found. Of course, if we are going to persist in the mistake of the present Government and try | and build all the houses the country wants in three 1 years, we shall, besides sending up builders' prices to a fabulous figure, exhaust the supply of Capital, except ' at a ruinous rate of interest. But why do this ? Why t

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