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 87 by owners, Sir Alfred Mond argued against such a course on the explicit ground that Local Authorities under Section 12 (1) of the 19x9 Act, could purchase such houses compulsorily. He remarked :—“ None of the Members have dealt with the question that under Section 12 of the Housing Act, 1919, a Local Authority can buy and retain houses compulsorily.” Actions, however, speak louder than words. Con version of large houses into flats has practically every where been a failure. Many Local Authorities must take their share of blame for this, as the policy has been widely resisted by them on the grounds that the neighbouring middle-class residents would object to the working classes coming to live near them, and that the value of the adjacent property would be depreciated. But the Government had the powers given to them by Parliament of compelling the con version of these innumerable empty houses and have done nothing in the matter. The houses are there and the poor are homeless. But the Government’s record has been worse than this. When Local Authorities requested the Ministry to be allowed to buy and convert such empty houses or week-end cottages, the Ministry have replied that they would only allow this course to be adopted if the Local Authority paid out of its rates the net cost of purchase and conversion. This is a direct contra diction of the promise given in the quotation at the beginning of this account, and, indeed, of the pro visions of the Act, which in Section 7 states that all

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