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 9i position was grave in the extreme. And,” continued the lec turer, " the building of houses is being stopped in the holy interests of economy. Was there ever such a false idea of what real wealth is ? Wealth is not money. If we can provide houses we shall be building up real wealth. It is the opposition of the Minister of Health to-day that is keeping houses from the people, and our own folly in not spending money on our houses. Bradford wanted 10,000 more houses,” continued Dr. Buchan, " excluding about 5,000 which should replace unfit ones, and they were to have only 800. People were being overcrowded in miserable dens. Venereal disease was not so far apart from housing as was thought. The great barrier to it should be a proper environment at home. It was the worst where homes were worst. Among the decent working-classes there was least of it, and it was most prevalent among the richest and the most miserable poor. In slumdom the people could not help not having moral ideals, and the rich seemed to have too much money to spend to cultivate them." The following further quotation from Sir Alfred Mond’s speech in Parliament on 13th March, 1922, and its refutal by his own political supporter, Colonel Fremantle, Chairman of the L.C.C. Housing Committee, is significant:— Sir Alfred Mond : " . . . The last census shewed that in normal times you have 430,000 empty houses of the working-class kind. My point is that all these houses have been filled with tenants, and that fact has never been taken into account.” Viscountess Astor : “ Were they uninhabited ? ” Sir A. Mond : " Yes. We all know that there was throughout the country a certain number of empty houses. ... I know that a large number have disappeared, and this has no doubt relieved the situation to a considerable extent. Colonel Fremantle, : “. . . The Right Hon. Gentle man made one point which must be explained or I will challenge it as wrong. He said that there were 450,000 empty houses

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