NEW HOMES IN BRITAIN
NEARLY 2,000,000 IN DECADE, BULLDTNG SOCIETIES’ RETURNS. (Briiisb Official Wireless.! RUGBY, April 6. the past 15 years no fewer than 2,1/5,000 new houses have been erected in England. Of this number nearly 1,900,000 have been erected during the past ten years, 60 per cent, of them by private enterprise. Although the population of Britain has increased by only 2,000,000 since the war, the new housing accommodation provided ,is sufficient for three times that number
The greatest activity has taken place in the suburbs of London, where nearly 500,000 new homes have been built in the last decade.
This development was reflected in the official returns of building societies, which show that since 1922 the amount advanced on mortgages has substantially increased each year. In the past seven years the annual total has nearly doubled, and it is predicted that the 1933 figure will reach £100,(XX),000. nearly £10,000,000 above the record total of 1931.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 9 April 1934, Page 5
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