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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» 85 PART III The Gorernment’s Record for Truth and Justice An account will be given in this chapter of a variety of important matters relating to Housing, wherein the Government and more particularly its present Minister of Health, have, either by evasion or deliberately, deceived the House of Commons and the country ; and wherein they have shewn wilful bias. (i) The purchase of existing houses as dwellings for the working classes. Section 12 (1) of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1919, gives powers to a Local Authority to acquire existing houses for the use of the working classes, and to alter, enlarge, repair or improve them so as to render them in all respects fit for habitation. There were three main classes of dwellings which this section had in view. In the first place large empty houses, which could be turned into working-class flats. In the second place, smaller houses which were being deliberately kept empty by landlords to obtain a high purchase price. In the third place, “ week-end cottages " by the seaside or in attractive rural scenery, which were tenanted and occasionally occupied by well-to-do people for week-ends, and were kept empty between whiles.

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