ENGLISH HOUSING PROBLEM
The London House Builders' Assooiation recently discussed the " resumption of house-building by private enterprise. 1' Work is; still in progress on Government schemes; but as tho appointed 168,000 houses are one after the other completed, the "resumption" problem'will become increasingly urgent. It is necessary, in one way or another, to get houses once more built as a matter of normal private business, holds tho Chronicle. The chief suggestion brought forward, and passed unanimously, had reference to the action of " the trusts and combines which now control production of building materials."-' It • was alleged that these trusts controlled 95 per cent, of t)/e businesses, and wore successfully preventing the prices of builders' materials from falling, in harmony with other prices. It is generally acknowledged that excessive cost of materials has been a large factor (among many others) in the fantastic cost of building since the Armistice.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 54, 6 March 1922, Page 3
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