HOUSING CAMPAIGN WANTED.
"It is becoming clear to thinking Liberals," says the Nation, "that their policy of social reform must include- a bolder handling of the housing problem than any that has hitherto oeen attempted. Efforts to improve the public health, or to' raise wages, or ,to offer new opportunities, such as small holdings, lose half their efficacy if the homes of the people are all the time exerting a depressing influence on the standard of life. We cannot afford delay. The best of the young men and women. of the villages are still leaving the country for mere want of house-room; health v insurance is robbed of half its effect by insanitary conditions, of which the tenant dares not complain; and the spread of small holdings is checked by the unwillingness of loca^authorities to build."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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136HOUSING CAMPAIGN WANTED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12817, 17 July 1912, Page 5
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