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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A THE HOUSING QUESTION 93\ / <.i> \ j - t-.r ^ 1 about the report of the Committee on Light Castings. It was unhesitating in its condemnation. It reported that the Light Castings Association was restricting its output, and retarding efficiency, in order to keep up prices, to such an extent that not more than 4,000 houses a month could be finished, a number which was, of course, totally inadequate. The Committee described the course taken by the Association as contrary to the public interest. The Government, which has always been indis- criminating in its blame of working men and which forced upon them a measure of dilution of operatives, has taken no action whatever against its friends the manufacturers, whom its own Committee has so gravely censured. The following reply in the House of Com mons is a good instance of a Minister defending his allies:— Mr. Robert Young asked the Minister ot Health Whether during the latter part of 1920 the supply of rain-water spouting, ranges and other ironwork necessary for the equipment of dwellings was insufficient, and, as a result, houses almost ready for use were kept standing empty, entailing loss to local authorities and the Treasury ; whether this was due in large measure to the action of the Light Castings Association ; whether the present supply of light castings is deemed sufficient for the housing work in progress, and, if not, what steps will be taken to increase the quan tity of light castings so that house building will be expedited ? Sir A. Mond : " There has been, and still is, a shortage of rain water and soil goods, and baths, available for housing schemes. The output of light castings has been investigated by a Committee appointed under the Profiteering Act, and that Committee has recently issued a Report which deals amongst other things with

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