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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58 THE HOUSING QUESTION “ (6) The Ministry, soon after the inception of the scheme, began reducing its own standards, and continued doing so until contracts were stopped in 1921. The policy of reducing amenities was never publicly given out, and architects could only become aware of it by finding their plans and quantities, drawn up in accordance with the Ministry’s Manual, cut down in the office of the Housing Commissioner. " (c) Commissioners continually advised the Ministry against this policy of attrition. " (d) The control of the situation was all along entirely in the hands of the Ministry through the Memoranda which it issued to the Commissioners. Any detail of plan or specification which exceeded the instructions (to Commissioners) of the Ministry was as a matter of course cut out. Moreover, even if the plans were in accordance with the Ministry’s standard at the time they were submitted, yet, if the lowest tender exceeded the Ministry's limits, the amenities were cut down still further by the Com missioner under the orders of the Ministry. Not infrequently further excisions took place at the Ministry itself, after the plans, &c., had been passed by the Commissioner. " It must theref re be clear to any impartial person that the architectural profession is blameless in the matter. I am not an architect, nor am I now an official, and therefore may, perhaps, be considered to hold a neutral position. " Late Housing Commissioner for the South-West of England.” E. N. Mozley, Lieut-Colonel, RE. (retired). These three excuses are instigated by clever people who do know the facts (and like to misrepresent them) and are repeated by other people who do not. Running down men who work in the public service, whether Government or Local, is nowadays done by certain classes of society as a matter of deliberate policy. It is a clever game but an ungenerous one, and people

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