HOUSING REFORM IN ENGLAND

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14192, 9 January 1917, Page 5

HOUSING REFORM IN ENGLAND

•■■■■'■* ', >■*';■' ■-*>■:' ■ —^"■-"'•. ! . GKI^VT SCPKMJS 1*?. JS^GLAXD. ' In November Mb Walter Longi, President of • the '* British Local CJoverumeiit Board, received sympathetically a deputation to urga a"large: measure of housing: -reform after the-war. -It -.was .pointed out that at least 400,000 new cottages :\vero needed.' The Uovernment was aski iug; to set .aside £20,000 v for advances ' to local authorities' dnU* oth'er agencies to .carry oMf,- hopsiiiK . schemes. .This sum is estimated 'to in-ovide'-liiboufc 100,000 houses. 'Mr l^ong agreed thafc this hpifsiug question lay atl.the ix>ot of all social reform, and, that Government assistance shpuld:*l)o on, liberal links. It was a matter of common -justice aiid decency to provide houses for the ifxen who ;y came ■ Bsick from the war, aiid it was vital -to , the ftiiiure race that everything , should be done to Keep aa ; many, peopl© as possible occupied oh thqlintd. ,0f all "the social t-chem'e« cqmp.eting for funcl^ after /the . Avar that for bet-Ler housing' 'ca«Ve ifir'st. To lot the men. who av. ere enduring so hiuqli at tho iYont crvmo,. b^ck' fi % om water-loggsd and horrible trenches to something .Jittle^ijietter 'than a? .P'g-sty would be criminal. '/'He was not sure that £20,000,000 would- be en6ugh."Aiany schemes for water supply, drainage, etc., essential to gooii hpitsing and public • ■ ' . '■''.'.■''■' t -"'' ■ . '• -.'••■ '.. .', '■

■ heattl-iV'lmcp'Been reluctantly :hfeld ; iip'/ -till ' pea.c6 c^me' fnid mon^y v ':^Va»^)^available. ■ : Local 'aiilJi'o^ities had b|ieh la^ed^ to .^upply ipii^fctiala'rs of w6r&s : esssntlafin this ,wa^ s «'riti these would ba tabulated and car^t'ull^- cptjsidel-ed byvthe Department, so ijhai?, they might be teady when the \var| vras <?f^er. ■■ ' • •; ;.