HOUSING IN BRITAIN
Vast Building Since War British Official Wireless bervic*. RUGBY, April A In the past 15 years no fewer thee 2,175,000 new houses have been erected in England, and of this number nearly 1,900,000 have been built in the last 10 years, 60 per cent, of them by private enterprise. Though the population of Britain has increased by only 2,000,000 (Ince the war, the new housing accommodation provided is sufficient for three times that number. The greatest activity hat taken place in the suburbs of London, where nearly 500,000 new homes have been built in a decade. This development is 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 last seven years. The annual total has nearly doubled, and it is predicted that the 1933 figures will reach £100,000,000, nearly £10,000,000 above the record total of 1931.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 98, 9 April 1934, Page 9
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