STATE HOUSE TENANCIES

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26263, 7 November 1950, Page 5

STATE HOUSE TENANCIES

SOME TRANSFERS TO BE ENCOURAGED

SMALLER RENTS FOR SMALLER HOUSES VNew Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 6. State house tenants occupying houses larger than they now require were being encouraged to transfer to smaller ones to help to ease the housing shortage, said, the Minister in charge of the State Advances Corporation (Mr J. R. Marshall) to-day. Tenants making such transfers would not be asked to pay the new rate of rental. The Minister said that a number of State house tenants had, through changes in family circumstances, more room than they needed, and it had been decided that where they were prepared to accept transfers to smaller houses they would be encouraged to do so by allowing such transfers on the basis of ’the old scale of rentals This had been decided on because so/long-as the housing shortage lasted •the best use must be made of all available accommodation. Mr Marshall said he felt that with encouragement widows, retired persons, and people whose families had grown up and gone away might sejze the opportunity of transferring to sma’ler houses at smaller rents. On' the other hand. State tenants with growing families should now haye a better bhance of getting thd larger houses they needed. State tenants willing to consider transfers on these conditions should get in touch with the loca| office of the State Advances Corporation. The old scale of rentals did not applv to houses occupied since April 1, 1950.