STATE HOUSING PLAN IN BRITAIN
GOOD PROGRESS WITH SCHEME (British Official Wireless) (Received February 17, 6.30 pun.) RUGBY, February 16. Moving the second reading of the new Housing Bill, the Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood) in the House of Commons, said it had been estimated that originally 600,000 new houses were required to fulfil the. Government’s slum clearance and overcrowding programme. Of this total 290,000 were already built and 70,000 were under construction. Building prices were steadying and local authorities were again receiving more tenders.
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Southland Times, Issue 23438, 19 February 1938, Page 12
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