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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74 THE HOUSING QUESTION erection of new houses). Thus a Local Authority would not have to pay for slum clearance out of its rates. Further, the Act provided that if a Local Authority failed to do its duty in slum clearance the Minister of Health was empowered to order it to be done, and, if the Authority failed to comply, then the Minister might carry out the scheme himself (or through the County Council). The financial regulations which accompanied the Act with the authority of the House of Commons, provided that Local Authorities were to have six years from August, 1919, to carry out their slum clearance schemes, or such further period as lack of labour and materials might necessitate. Great were the hopes held out by Ministers from time to time. Take these specimens of the utterances of the Government on the subject: Dr. Addison, Minister of Health, at the time of the passing of the Act, July, 1919 :— “ When the Housing Act has received the Royal Assent we shall at last be equipped with powers to deal with schemes and to tap in London that vast reservoir of accommodation which its empty houses afforded in many districts.” From the Ministry of Health official publication Housing for December 6th, 1920 :— " Under recent legislation the powers of local authorities and of the Ministry of Health in dealing with unfit houses and un healthy areas have been greatly strengthened, and assistance from the Exchequer is promised in cases where a re-housing scheme is carried out in connection with an improvement or

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