HOUSING IN LONDON
COUNTY COUNCIL SCHEMES
HUGE EXPENDITURE INVOLVED
(British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
.RUGBY, November 12,
A report issued to-day shows that the London County Council had spent £28,500,000 on housing up to tho end of last March. Of this total over £22,600,000 was in respect to assisted schemes, and the total number of houses and ilats provided by the council, apart from cubicles in lodging houses, was 36,500. Last year alone over £2,600,000 was expended on housing, including the provision of over 9,000 houses and flats. The Exchequer subsidy on this outlay was over £500,000, and £300,000 was forthcoming from rates and other sources. Tho London County Council Housing Committee recommends that the State subsidy should not be reduced, and that it would bo equitable for higher rates of grant to be fixed in respect of block dwellings in or near the central areas of London, as compared with houses on outlying cottage estates.
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Evening Star, Issue 20023, 14 November 1928, Page 4
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