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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40 THE HOUSING QUESTION Now for the ninth excuse. It is true that for some time after the war, working men, not only in the building trade but in all trades, were giving a reduced output. That is one of the results of a five years' war. It tires men. It demoralises men. It often kills men or reduces their efficiency through wounds and disease. Were working men the only portion of this community who felt the reaction after the war ? Did the upper and middle classes pull their full weight in 1919 and 1920 ? Let it be remembered that the building trade operatives were not a protected occupa tion in the war. They went to fight in large numbers. There was even a time when we were thankful to them for fighting for their Country. To a large number of people, however, including the present Minister of Health, they are merely an object of criticism, as for instance, on July 21st, 1921, the Minister said in reply to Mr. Clynes :— “ I feel in duty bound to point out that the reason we have made so little progress with housing has been the extraordinary low output of the building industry.” Well, if that is so, what has brought the price of houses down from £950 to £500 in a year ? The reason is two-fold. Firstly, builders have had to cease profiteering. Secondly, workmen have im mensely increased their output. With regard to the former, it is a most significant fact that, on a certain occasion, builders throughout the kingdom, dropped their prices by more than £150 in a fortnight. The occasion was this : In February,

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