"FAIR" RENTS
The average citizen accepts a "housing shortage," requiring for its solution the erection of thousands of houses; what I see on my rounds assures me that no such shortage exists. In all suburbs there are numbers of homes locked up, or occupied by only one person; inquiry ever mepts the same reply, "I dare not let the house, or even part of it, owing to the Fair Rents Act." This Act, framed during the depression, has outlived any usefulness it ever had, and by preventing private investment in building and the letting and sub-letting of available dwellings, now aggravates the situation it was intended to relieve. Who is responsible? METER READER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 33, 9 February 1943, Page 2
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