HOUSE SHORTAGE
Sir, —The Real Estate Institute reports that 40,000 houses are needed urgently. Here is a way in which we can hurry up the problem. Conscript all carpenters and put no fewer than eight men to one house. By doing this one house would be finished in about a quarter of the time at present required. We built large camps at short notice. Let us do the same with houses. Instead of one or two men trying to build a house by themselves, put on a gang and finish quicker. I am sure that good, plain houses would please most of us. Stop all big building of railway sheds and suchlike until the house shortage has been overcome. House our returning men, and then they can help with the building of railway sheds. What a good rehabilitation scheme it would be.—Yours, etc., R. SMITH. Rollcslon, September 20, 1944,
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24370, 23 September 1944, Page 5
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