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 45 houses was being hopelessly retarded through rich clients and contractors luring away labour for their private work, by offering higher wages, and by other methods of cold-shouldering housing schemes (not least of which was the influence of builders and their friends elected on Local Authorities). An Act known as the Housing (Additional Powers) Act was passed later in 1919, a section (No. 5) of which empowered Local Authorities to prohibit private building if it could be shewn to be interfering with their housing scheme. This section was a total failure, for three reasons :— (1) Local Authorities were unwilling to work it. Anyone who knew how local interests are favoured by local Councillors could have foreseen how impossible it would be to expect men to take the bread out of the mouths of their friends whom they met every day in the street. (2) The Act only allowed Authorities to move against private building within their own area. But the common trouble was that a big firm in a neighbouring area lured labour away. The Law forgot this—or intended to forget it. (3) The Section allowed an appeal to the Ministry if a prohibition order were made by a Local Authority, but the wording of the Section was so badly drawn that these appeals were practically always successful. Why the Section was so worded that a coach and six could be drawn through it, it would be interesting to know. Perhaps the big business interests in the present House of Commons could say.

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