HOUSING IN BRITAIN
LONDON COUNCIL'S WORK (British Official Wireless.) Roc. 10 a.m. . RUGBY, Nov. 12. A report issued to-day shows that the London County Council has spent £28,500,000 on housing up to the end of last March. Of this total over £22,000,000 was in respect of assisted schemes, and the total number of houses and flats provided by the council, apart from cubicles in lodging houses, was 36,500. Last year alone over £2,600,000 was expended on housing, including the provision of over 9000 houses and flats. The Exchequer subsidv on this outlay was over £ooo,ooo, and £300,000 was forthcoming from rates and other sources. The" London County Council housing committee recommends that the State subsidy should not' be reduced, and that it* would be equitable for higher rates of grant to be fixed in respect of block dwellings in or near the central areas of London, as compared with houses on outlying cottage estates.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16801, 14 November 1928, Page 7
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