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IZ.

14.

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  Authorities ­
  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