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 69 " Where people do not do their duty in all walks of life we impose special conditions. I would like to ask the critics who described this power as that of an Oriental potentate what is going to happen ? Here we are prepared to find millions of money to assist in building houses, and if, in a certain area which shows that a certain need exists, the authority responsible for dealing with that area is not disposed to try to meet these needs, what are we going to do? Are we to stand by and do nothing? because that is the alternative. It is clear that the only thing we can do under such circumstances is to invite somebody else to step in and do the work. We propose that it may be the County Council, or it may be the central Government Department." But by April, 1921, the Cabinet had side-tracked Dr. Addison and his inconvenient desire to build houses. In that month, Sir Alfred Mond, the new Minister of Health, when addressing a deputation of the Association of Municipal Corporations, said:— " I think it would be premature to deal with the question now, but all I can say is that, as far as we are concerned, the default powers, which, of course, are rightly inserted in the Act to deal with people who should have moved, are not going to be used to compel local authorities to carry out ruinous schemes." As an example of Sir Alfred Mond’s methods of using the powers Parliament has given him and making Local Authorities do their duty, the case of St. Ives, in Cornwall, is of interest. In 1920, the Council determined to build 130 houses, employed an architect, obtained tenders, got them approved by the Ministry and actually signed contracts with the builders. In November, 1920, a new Council was elected, unfriendly to housing. Their problem was how to evade the signed contracts of their predecessors. They appealed

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