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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44 THE HOUSING QUESTION stories are regarded by men of practical building experience as demonstrating little more than the lack of real knowledge on the part of those who give currency to them.” To-day the output of labour is practically at pre-war standard, but the Government continue to refuse to authorise the building of more houses. An important reason for the lesser output of building operatives in 1919 and 1920, but one which has never properly been allowed for, is the inadequate production of materials in those years. If stacks of materials are not to be had on the ground, it is useless to expect a high output. But let us get to the real cause of the lack of progress of the Housing Schemes of Local Authorities. That cause was the private demand for building labour after the war. Two main factors brought about this demand:— (1) The fact that for five years no repair or decoration work had been done throughout the country. (2) The desire of business firms to extend and beautify their premises, very largely to escape paying to the Treasury Excess Profits Tax. So powerful were these influences that, so late as the end of 1920, only 10 per cent, of the building labour in the country was employed on working-class houses. Even last year, after the slump and the removal of the Excess Profits Tax, only about 150,000 out of 900,000 were so employed; to-day many less. Very early in the life of the scheme the Government were warned by their own officials that the erection of

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