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The Fourteen Excuses are as follows:— 
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That the working-classes do not need the houses 17 
That the working-classes do not want such good 
houses 22 
That the Government houses are not worth 
having 22 
That the rural labourer is content with things 
as they are 25 
That the working-classes cannot afford to pay 
the rent - 28 
That the cost will be ruinous - - - - 32 
That the necessary capital cannot be found - 32 
That more houses cannot be built for lack of 
labour ----- - 37 
That the operatives of the building trades are 
generally idlers, whereas building contractors 
have been content with a normal profit - 37 
That a Housing bureaucracy is ignorant, idle, 
and expensive *53 
That control by Government and Local Author 
ities is necessarily slow and inefficient - - 53 
That the Architects are mainly responsible for 
the failure of the Government Housing Scheme 53 
That private enterprise sufficed in the past and 
should suffice to-day ------ 59 
That Local Authorities, which say they do not 
want houses, know best and should be let 
alone 60