SOCIALISED HOUSES
When the Fair Rents Act was introduced an assurance was given that it was a temporary measure to $ieet an emergency and would operate for only one year. Despite this assurance the Act has been extended year after year and even made wider in scope. Opposition complaints of this permanent "temporary" legislation are fully justified. The Act offends against the principle of home ownership, denying the right of the owner to the use of his own property. In a grave emergency such a law might be tolerable for a brief period, but its continuance for years proves either the incompetence of the Government to grapple with the emergency which it claimed to justify the original measure, or its disregard of the principles of ownership. Houses are really being socialised, without being bought. The Attorney-General's excuse for this— that numerous applications were still being made under the Act—is no excuse at all and really indicates in one way the harm done by the measure. Instead of more homes being built by private persons for their own use or to let, the private provision of dwellings is declining, because of the unfairness of the Act, and more and more persons are encouraged to take advantage of the Fair Rents Act to continue in occupation. o£, flUiother j^erson's properly*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 6
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218SOCIALISED HOUSES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 6
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