Volkswirtschaftliches Lesebuch für Kaufleute

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Identifikator:: 879457236

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-16989

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Volkswirtschaftliches Lesebuch für Kaufleute

Place of publication:: Frankfurt a. O.

Publisher:: Verlag der Waldow'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung (R. Wengler)

Year of publication:: 1905

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 514 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Vierter Teil. — Weltwirtschaft und Handelspolitik

Collection:: Economics Books

122 THE HOUSING QUESTION (4) Institute a Central or Regional Building Department on the lines of the Ministry of Munition Building Departments in the war. Consult Local Authorities as to plans and amenities, but, wherever the Local Council are not putting their best foot foremost, let the Government carry out the actual building themselves. Houses would then be delivered as promptly and numerously as shells in the war. (5) Guard against the return of that rise of price, which nearly killed the schemes in 1920, by :— (a) Spread the period of building over a far longer period ; 10 years for new houses and 10 more years for slum clearance would not be too long. (6) Make use of building by Direct Labour of Local Author ities, by Building Guilds, and by the Office of Works itself, in order to check any excessive tenders by local contractors, and to stimulate true competition. During 1919 and 1920 building contractors killed competition and raised prices by private agreements in their federations. (c) Stop local “ luxury ” building or repairs, where local housing schemes were not making proper progress. Such measures would shew that a Government meant business. There would occasionally be local friction and outcry. Councillors who were trying, for reasons of their own, to stop housing, would complain that officials from London or from the centre of a Region were dictating to them, but once the Nation saw that the houses were really going up and the slums really being removed, the Government would have all the support it required. Let us recall the words of the King on April nth, 1919, at Buckingham Palace, when he addressed the

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