HOUSING SCHEMES IN BRITAIN
♦ MINISTER REVIEWS PROGRESS (BRITISH OFFICIAIi WIRELESS.) RUGBY, June 16. The Minister for Health (Sir Kingsley Wood), speaking at Winchester on national housing, made the announcement that the 3,000,000 mark in the number of new houses erected since the end of the war in 1918 had now been P ass ? d ;, So half year ended on March 21, 174,609 houses had been built, the output exceeding by 5000 any previous six months on record. Sir Kingsley Wood drew attention to a gratifying feature of recent building activity—the increasing proportion of houses built for people of moderate means. Houses built for letting were being erected at the rate of 120,000 a year, and houses built with a rateable value not exceeding £l3 were being erected at the rate of 160,000 a year —undoubtedly the largest output of this class of house in the country’s history.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21812, 18 June 1936, Page 11
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