BRITISH HOUSING.
WHAT L. 0.0. HAS DONE. (British Oniotal Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 12. A report issued to-day shows that the London County Chuucd lias spent £28:500,000 on housing up to the end or lash March.' Of ting total over £22,000,000 was in respect of assisted schemes, and the total number of houses and flats- 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 9000 houses and flats, The Exchequer subsidy on this- outlay was over £500,000 and £300,000 was forthcoming from rates and other sources. The London Council Council housing committee recommends that the State subsidy should not be reduced, and that it would he equitable for higher rates of grant to be fixed in respect of block dwellings m or near the central areas of London, as compared with houses on outlying cottage estates.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10744, 15 November 1928, Page 3
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