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 37 not take the sensible course of spreading the building programme of 735>ooo more houses over, say, 10 years ? We shall then only have to borrow annually in capital thirty or forty millions a year. And are we not entitled to say that a nation which spends annually on drink and tobacco five or six hundred millions, on cinemas as much more, and which can raise in new issues of capital three or four hundred millions a year, can certainly afford the nine millions annually needed for “ losses ” incurred in re-housing the working classes ? It should not be forgotten, too, that the building of working-class houses greatly stimulates the trades which supply furniture, cutlery, linen, etc. The benefit to the nation in such ways is incontestable. EIGHTH EXCUSE That more Houses cannot be built for Lack of Labour NINTH EXCUSE That the Operatives of the Building Trades are generally idlers, whereas Building Contractors have generally been content with a Normal Profit These two statements may well be considered together.

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