THE HOUSING PROBLEM
TO THE EDITOB Or THB PRESS. Sir, —I think that the housing problem is the most difficult one that the Government has to meet, for it not only must find money to sustain our immense army of unemployed but as time goes on will be obliged to find homes for them, as their income provided now is not adequate to pay the rent of the present-day type of dwelling. We are told that about 40,000 are on the pay-roll to-day, without the oldrage and other pensioners, so your correspondent, "Interested," might
well ask what is the future position and how will homes be provided on such uprto-date lines as proposed. Should emigrants be brought out here or the Public Works programme slacken off, more and more machinery will be brought into use. Then the future presents a doleful picture for the victims of the slump, I and my family are sufferers from this recent action of the City Council in deprive ing us of water by cuttipg it off.— Yours, etc., SIX YEARS ON RELIEF. January 27, 1937.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22003, 29 January 1937, Page 8
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