State housing
Sir, — Countrary to R. B. Tranter’s suggestion (June 2), I have not advocated placing society’s unfortunates in sub-stand-ard hovels at all. He obviously missed the point of my letter. Surely when there is a serious shortage of both finance and accommodation, it is common sense to provide the greatest number of adequate state rental units possible with the taxpayers’ funds available. The Housing Corporation is making
no attempt to do this by squandering money on “uneconomic luxury pads” for a few. Consequently, they house less than half the people they could quite adequately house with the funds available. The real answer to the very real problem of low rental accommodation is given in the Housing Commission’s statement referred to by the president of the Landlords’ Association (June 2) — “give private landlords some financial incentive or tax concessions.” They will then provide low rental accommodation of a very adequate standard far more efficiently than the Housing Corporation does. - Yours, etc., PAUL J. SPICER. June 2, 1983.
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