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 77 Further than this, the Government, on 14th July, 1921, announced to the House of Commons that in future they would only give £200,000 a year towards the deficiency of all the Local Authorities in the Country together, in respect of improvement of slum areas. £200,000 a year! This meant practically the repeal of the 1919 Act by administrative order, as far as slum clearance was concerned. The " first point of attack ” of which the King spoke in the quotation at the beginning of this Part has definitely been stopped. Instead Sir Alfred Mond recommends Local Authorities to induce owners to patch up existing tenements—the larger part of them little better than hovels. The Ministry now find themselves unable to approve slum clearance schemes because they cannot find schemes small enough to come within this precious figure ! The usual excuse offered for the inaction of the Ministry up to now in respect of slum clearance is that slum dwellers cannot be cleared out until new houses have been built to which they can remove. The entire insincerity of this argument can be shewn by the following considerations :— (a) The Ministry have discouraged Local Authorities from even preparing and submitting plans for slum clearance. It may be taken that the period which would generally elapse between first consideration of a slum-clearance proposal by the technical officers

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