THE HOUSING SHORTAGE
to THR EDITOR or TOM PRESS. Sir.—The fact that some carpenters arriving in New Zealand have had to live in tents through being unable to find homes is a very appropriate illustration of the result which has followed from the treatment meted out to landlords by successive governments. These unfortunate persons are now treated with almost as much consideration as Jews receive in Germany. It is reasonable to believe that if it paid to build houses to let, then they would be built readily enough. The State has protected tenants so successfully that it is now nearly impossible to become one. This acute Shortage of houses is a feature of modern times. It is not so very many years since the advertising pages of the daily papers included dozens of “To Lets.” Can anyone be surprised that this is no longer the case? —Yours, etc., BUNGALOW. January 14, 1938. .
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22304, 19 January 1938, Page 6
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