The housing question

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Identifikator:: 1782637850

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-178813

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Westergaard, Harald http://d-nb.info/gnd/117574163; Nybølle, Hans Cl. http://d-nb.info/gnd/127386696

Title:: Grundzüge der Theorie der Statistik

Edition:: 2., völlig umgearb. Aufl.

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: G. Fischer

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 640 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. Kapitel. Das Exponentialgesetz

Collection:: Economics Books

THE HOUSING QUESTION 123 Association of County Councils, Municipal Corporations and Urban and Rural District Councils :— . . But how much greater is the problem that confronts us now I For it is not only with the clearance of slums that we have to deal—great and urgent as is that aspect of the housing problem—but also with the provision of new houses on an unpre cedented scale, sufficient to make good both the shortage of houses that existed before the war and the vast aggravation of that shortage caused by the almost total cessation of building during the war. •' I am informed that the immediate need of working-class houses for England and Wales alone is estimated at approximately 500,000. To meet this need the same untiring energy and en thusiasm will be required as that which enabled the country to meet the demand for munitions of war. . . . " . . The building of houses at the present time will neces sarily be a costly undertaking owing to the present high level of prices. But the money will be well spent; and we may look for a sure, even though deferred, return upon the expenditure in a healthier and more contented people. . . . “ While the housing of the working classes has always been a question of the greatest social importance, never has it been so important as now. It is not too much to say that an adequate solution of the housing question is the foundation of all social progress. Health and housing are indissolubly connected. If this country is to be the country which we desire to see it become, a great offensive must be undertaken against disease and crime, and the first point at which the attack must be delivered is the unhealthy, ugly, overcrowded houses in the mean street, which we all of us know too well. “ If a healthy race is to be reared it can be reared only in healthy homes ; if infant mortality is to be reduced and tuber culosis to be stamped out, the first essential is the improvement

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