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 89 housing committees and technical officers of Local Authorities, to compel them to lower their housing standards, and on innumerable occasions approval of tenders and contracts was refused by the Ministry until modifications of the precise kind adverted to by Mr. Gillis had been made. The only inaccuracy in the question was the employment of the word “ all ” in respect of Type B houses and of dressers, cupboards, etc. The correct word he should have employed was " many." There is not a Councillor or official of a Local Authority throughout the kingdom who does not know well that Sir Alfred Mond's reply was a gross untruth. (3) Has the demand for houses recently lessened ? On 4th May, 1921, Sir Alfred Mond told the House of Commons that Local Authorities were in many cases seriously reducing their own previous estimates of need. Dr. Addison, when Minister, at the close of his tenure of office, had told the House of Commons, on 10th March, 1921, that only a few Authorities were reducing their schemes. The National Housing and Town Planning Council, which is in as close touch with the Local Authorities as is the Ministry, and through unofficial channels in far closer touch, stated in its fortnightly Record oi 19th November, 1921, that from its information very few Authorities were reducing their requirements. The question arises : Was Sir Alfred Mond on 4th

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