HOUSING SHORTAGE
EASING IN POSITION FEWER APPLICATIONS FOR RELIEF (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND, June 3. Some slight easing in the acuteness of the housing shortage is noted by the officers of the Labour Department responsible for the administration of the Fair Rents Act. The improving trend is attributed to the now rapid rate under which State houses are becoming available to tenants. It is pointed out, however, that the leeway to be made up before the situation becomes normal is still a very large one. A significant aspect is that there has been a distinct drop in claims under the Act for possession of premises and there have been recent cases where tenants threatened with dispossession have been able to secure State houses. Rents are still being adjusted by magistrates or by agreement under supervision and with the assent ox an inspector of factories, but the number of such cases has also dropped very substantially, even by comparison with figures of a few months ago.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 8
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