HIGH-DENSITY HOUSING
Pensioner Cottage Occupancy
“The time may now be opportune for the Government to have a look at the removal of housing from political control,” said Cr. M. R. Carter, chairman of the housing committee, yesterday. when the City Council’s block of pensioners’ flats was officially opened in Mac Gibbon place, Spreydon. The cottages represented a density of 20 to the acre, which was considerably higher than was being achieved elsewhere in the
city. Cr. Carter said. “We cannot go on indefinitely erecting four houses to the acre on the perimeter of the city,” he said. “If subsidised housing is to form a part of our way of life, as it does at present, then we should be planning for higher density and planning tor the future.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29818, 10 May 1962, Page 10
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