The Housing Problem

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 13

The Housing Problem

Sir, —I quite agree with “Small Income,” who, in to-day’s “Dominion,” says that it is high time the Government did souiething to stop the exploitation of the public in the matter of rente asked for flats and rooms. Most of the places described as above in advertisements are not worth the name, and yet at the present time many people of refinement are forced to live in them until something better is obtainable. It is now a long time since the houses at Miramar and Lower Hutt were begun, but they seem to be very far from completion. At Lower Hutt they are mere skeletons, and the Government eeem to have the policy of putting up walls and roof and then leaving that house and starting eome more outside walls and roofs. Surely this crying need for houses to live in is more important than all these other city works that are being started. If there is a shortage of labour, why not take men off these works and rush the completion of homes for the people? The health and well-being of parents and children is far more important than blocks of offices or any other city work.—l am, ” ANOTHER SMALL INCOME. Wellington, July 27.