HOUSES OF BRITAIN
The number of houses built in Britain since the war is now 3,500,000, an increase of 40 per cent, on the number in existence in 1914. These figures are given in the March issue of "Home and Empire" by Sir Kingsley Wood, the Minister of Health. They have not been, equalled, or even approached, in any "other country, he writes. Under the slum clearance programmes, which cover 400,000 unfit houses occupied by 1,900,000 people, 180,000 homes, to accommodate 800,000 to 900,000 people, had been completed by the end of last year. The Government's new Housing Bill, states the Minister, is another milestone in the long road of progress in the improvement of housing conditions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 22
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117HOUSES OF BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 22
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