The Housing Problem

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 59, 3 December 1941, Page 9

The Housing Problem

Sir, —I agree with most of the article appearing in your issue of today re the distressing housing position.. We are heading for something even worse unless some impetus is'given toiprivatebuilding. Why should not the Government subsidize the genuine party wanting to build his own home? It would pay well in the long run, for nothing is more disastrous to a country than insufficient or bad housing. Your informant seems to unduly stress the shortage of building sites, and referred to going as far afield as Upper Hutt. One would think he had never visited the large and very favourable areas as of Johnsonville, Tawir Flat and Porirua, where, there is room for thousands of people and within 15 minutes of the city by electric train. It is in these localities,, where land can be 'bought at half that obtaining elsewhere, that the Immediate settlement of the future is destined to be established. —I am, etc., HOUSING. Wellington, November 25.