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 63 implications involved in the undertaking of a Housing Scheme. The Treasury’s refusal to allow drainage and water supply of the houses (except actually within the limits of the estate) to rank for subsidy was some thing uncommonly like breach of faith. Nothing had been said about this limitation when the Bill was going through. Difficulties were put in the way of Local Authorities in their endeavour to obtain capital for their schemes from the Local Loans Fund (which, although a Government issue, is allowed to be adminis tered by a group of financiers who are very imperfectly under Government control). And many more diffi culties they had, causing irritation and suspicion in the minds of local men who in the past had often found their irritation well justified, and their suspicions well grounded (as they have again found in the present outcome of the Government Housing Scheme). But, allowing for this, many Councils deliberately defied the Law. They knew houses were badly wanted and they refused to build them. What is the history of the employment by the Minister of Health of the powers given to him by Parliament to act in default of Local Authorities ? Here is a reply on 18th February, 1920, in the House of Commons :— Mr. Leonard Lyle asked the Minister of Health whether he now possesses adequate powers to compel lethargic authorities to build houses where these are urgently needed ; and, if so whether he proposes to exercise these powers ?

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