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 4i 1921, the Ministry of Health were permitting Local Authorities to enter into contracts for subsidised parlour-type houses for £950—and often more. At the end of that month Dr. Addison struck. He refused from that date to approve prices for such houses at more than £800. Within a fortnight this decision became known to building contractors throughout the country, and by the middle of March tenders were being sent in freely for the same type of house at about £795 • Had the output of Labour so suddenly increased as to account for this self-denying ordinance ? Of course not. Output, it is true, was increasing and had been doing so for many months, but not by jumps of £150 in a fortnight, which would represent a suddenly increased output of some 4° P er cent. It is as clear as daylight that, for months before the Addisonian axe fell, builders had been pocketing a nice little sum per house, approaching £150, in addition to the fair normal profit, which they no doubt calculated to obtain on their £800 tenders in March, 1921. This extraordinary incident has never been referred to by the Minister, and the public know nothing of it. It is astonishing, in view of the foregoing, to find the important Departmental Committee on the High Cost of Building Working-Class Dwellings (Cd. 1447) report in August, 1921, as follows :— " Although there are no doubt cases of builders having obtained favourable contracts, yielding more than normal profit, we think that this condition must be exceptional. . . . There is certainly

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