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 61 How many houses, not the excellent cottages which have been built by Local Authorities, but just the good old-fashioned sort, would they have built ? How many —with prices what they were and the clamour for building and repairs by rich firms and individuals what it was ? Shall we say a thousand a year ? It would be a sanguine estimate. What has been done by private enterprise in America, Germany, France and Italy since the war ? Practically nothing. This fact is known to every authority on the subject. And British private enterprise would have done about as much. Will those who oppose house building on estates by Local Authorities tell us by what other means modern, healthy lay-outs can be secured ? Of recent years builders of middle-class villas have found it has paid them to introduce some kind of art and amenity into the lay-out of an estate. But is it likely that speculative builders will take the trouble or afford the expense to do so in working-class houses ? They will do what they must to comply with local building by-laws and no more. The practice of converting Britain into a crowded and insanitary ant-heap will duly proceed. It has “ sufficed " in the past. Why should it not “ suffice " in the future ? And now for the fourteenth and last excuse. The Law as made in the 1919 Housing Act was clear. It became the statutory duty of Local Authori ties to submit and carry out an adequate scheme for housing the working classes in their area. It was further provided in the Act that, if a Local Authority

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