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 67 proposal that the Government shall keep its promises to the ex-service men. Lord Robert Cecil : ". . . It is all very well to say that people ought to pay for their housing. So they ought to pay, perhaps, in one sense, for everything, but we, at any rate, in this country have very clearly laid it down that, for good or ill, there are many things in which the State shall assist the poorer citizens of the country. We have done it with regard to education and with regard to disease. We have done it with regard to housing in various ways. . . Finally, the National Housing and Town Planning Council, in their Report of August, 1921, say :— " It is all very well for critics to say that if the carrying into effect of this work had been left to the forces of enterprise a far larger number of houses would have been built at a much lower cost. “ This statement is absolutely out of keeping with the recorded facts concerning housing progress in other countries. “ In France and America home building for the poorer members of the community is at a standstill. In Belgium and Italy a certain measure of activity is being shewn by the State and Local Authorities acting in conjunction, but the actual achieve ments are far below those of this country. Throughout the whole of Europe and America the cost of building is so high that private enterprise has ceased to operate, and the pressure of demand for remedial action is as great or greater than it is here.” The following quotations shew the brave words of Ministers in 1919, when boasting of how they would, as in duty bound, deal with Local Authorities who failed to carry out their Housing obligations, and their dwindling courage as time went on :

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