‘MEAGRE’ HOUSES
Loan Policy Criticised (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 21. The State Advances Corporation should cease to encourage the building of cheap houses which were meagre in convenience and style, the senior lecturer in architecture at Auckland University, Mr P. Middleton, said today. Young couples, in a hurry to find a house after they were married, committer! themselves to a house which they would not have selected at leisure. He was speaking to the New Zealand Real Estate Institute convention. “State Advances could continue to lend money on new and more substantial houses at market rate, but should lend money relatively cheaply and as a matter of routine, for existing houses, say, not less than seven years old,” he said Decent dwellings could be built for the aged, small houses on small plots, each with their own identity and more could be spent in the middle value range where houses today cost between £6OBO-£BOOO, he said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30862, 22 September 1965, Page 16
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