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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50 THE HOUSING QUESTION 16th March, 1921. Major Kelley asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that operatives employed on building guilds’ contracts are laying 900 bricks per day, while on private contracts they will not lay more than 300 ; can he state approximately what difference in time this will make in completion ; what reduction in cost there would be in housing schemes ; and can the Government now use all possible means to see that trained or semi-trained ex-service men are absorbed in the building trade ? Dr Addison : " There is considerable variation in the output of bricks obtained in various schemes. The Building Guilds state that they have obtained a high average in certain schemes and the same is true of some contractors’ schemes. I have no evidence that there is any such difference as the Hon. and Gallant Member suggests between the output obtained on Guild and other contracts. " An increase of output from zoo to 900 bricks a day would be equivalent on the average to a saving of approximately two months in the time taken to complete the houses in a scheme and to a saving in cost of about ^70 a house.” Lieut. -Commander Kenworthy : " Why not give greater facilities to the Guilds ? ” Dr. Addison : " There are many difficulties in presenting a proper statement on this matter. The number of Guild schemes is so small that it is difficult to make a fair comparison. We are getting such information as we can, and I will give it to the House as soon as I have it.” Could anything be more astonishing than for a Minister to say that he will not allow further houses to Guilds until he is satisfied with their work, and, in another reply, to say that he cannot find out how they are progressing because they are at work on so few. Or take the case of dilution of the building trade.

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