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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PART II The Government’s Record in Slum Clearance " While the housing of the working classes has always been a question of the greatest social importance, never has it been so important as now. It is not too much to say that an adequate solution of the housing question is the foundation of all social progress. Health and housing are indissolubly connected. If this country is to be the country which we desire to see it become, a great offensive must be undertaken against disease and crime, and the first point at which the attack must be delivered is the unhealthy, ugly, overcrowded house in the mean street, which we all of us know too well. " If a healthy race is to be reared it can be reared only in healthy homes ; if infant mortality is to be reduced and tuberculosis to be stamped out, the first essential is the improvement of housing conditions ; if drink and crime are to be successfully combated, decent, sanitary houses must be provided. If ‘ unrest ’ is to be converted into contentment, the provision of good houses may prove one of the most potent agents in that conversion. . . So spoke the King by the advice of his present Ministers on nth April, 1919, at the start of the Government Housing Scheme. Let us see what the Government have done to make good His Majesty’s words. The law on the subject is clear. The 1919 Housing Act provided that all schemes technically known as Part I and Part II. i.e., Schemes providing for the clearance of slums and of unfit houses, were to be financially assisted by the Treasury precisely in the same manner as Part III Schemes (i.e., schemes for 73

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