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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52 THE HOUSING QUESTION The following questions and replies in the House of Commons throw a ray of light on Sir Alfred Mond’s familiarity with his subjects :— loth August, 1921. Mr. Trevelyan Thomson asked the Minister of Health whether he has recently sanctioned the erection of a further 456 houses, more or less, in Newcastle-on-Tyne ; and whether he can now see his way to grant the application of the Middlesborough County Borough Council for the erection of zoo more houses, seeing that the housing shortage and resulting overcrowding is as severe in Middlesborough as in Newcastle-on-Tyne ? Sir Alfred Mono : “ I have agreed to tenders being obtained for the erection of a further zoo to 400 houses at Newcastle-on- Tyne. In view of the large number of houses contracted for at Middlesborough which is still to be completed, I have advised the Local Authority that their proper course is to concentrate at present on the houses already sanctioned and to leave open the question of additional houses till these are nearer completion.” Mr. Thomson : “ Is the Right Hon. Gentleman aware that owing to his refusal to sanction these houses a number of brick layers and others in the building trade are out of work, and receiving unemployment pay ? ” Sir Alfred Mono : " They might go to work at Newcastle' then." From his last reply it is clear that the Minister of Health conceives that working men can at any time change their home, with or without their families, and go and live elsewhere. One wonders how he would care to do so himself. One wonders, too, whether he had made any enquiry as to the availability of living accommodation for more workmen at Newcastle. It is time that Ministers realised that working men are human beings like themselves.

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