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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6o THE HOUSING QUESTION That Local Authorities, which say they do not want Houses, know best, and should be left alone Let us consider the former statement. It all depends bi on what you mean by " suffice.” Private enterprise it has to its " credit ” many notable achievements. be Houses, 40 or 50 to an acre. Seventy thousand back- to-back houses in Leeds. An England flooded out with Gi two-bedroom cottages, whose families have to sleep nc three or more in a small bedroom. Long rows of se mean streets, where the front doors open on to the dc pavement and two-year old children play on the bi doorstep and risk their lives in the road. Back ext en- ot sions which deprive the main body of the house of 0 air and light; tiny paved yards or a wretched patch so of useless ground serving only as a waste-heap. Party- ai walls which it is dangerous to lean up against. Dark it stairs and small windows, and rooms low, small and 01 ill-ventilated. No doubt there are a lot of people in T England who think this sort of thing has " sufficed ” bi for the working classes. But the working classes do cc not think so. ai It is the peculiar glory of private building enterprise p; that it has been responsible for 95 per cent, of these “ homes for the people ”—" brick boxes with slate lids ” as John Burns once called them. cl Let us apply another test. How would it have done ti to have left to private enterprise, after the war, the h task of meeting the housing needs of the country ? si

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