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 65 disingenuous to say, as Ministers and Coalition Members too often say, that unwilling Local Authorities know best and should be let alone. Such Local Authorities know the facts perfectly well. The housing conditions and misery of the poorer of their constituents are patent everywhere. They know the facts but will not apply the remedy—because they believe that, as taxpayers, their pockets will be touched, and because Councillors are often slum-owners, or the friends of slum-owners, and know that new houses will lower the value of their own ignoble property. They prefer that the working classes shall remain miserable and in unhealthy conditions, rather than that they themselves and their friends should have to pay for improvements. All honour to the many Local Authorities and to the innumerable Councillors who have worked with a will to press on with their Housing Schemes. But there are others, and it is hypocritical to deny it. And the Coalition Government have protected them in their criminal neglect. NOTES ON THE FOREGOING. The following quotations from the Housing Debate of 13th March, 1922, give an indication of the present Minister of Health’s complaisant attitude towards private enterprise in cottage building, and what other people, including some of the supporters of his Government, think about it.

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