HOUSE RENT IN N.S.W.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 7 November 1912, Page 5

HOUSE RENT IN N.S.W.

FINDINGS OF A COMMISSION

Sydney, November 6

The Parliamentary Committee .which inquired into the enormous increase in house rents assigns the causes to the increase in population, the growing cost of labour and material, the demolitions through resumptions, the growing demand for cottages and houses, resulting from the prosperity, the increasing demand for cottages in preference, to terrace houses, and, in isolated cases, to the Federal land ta'x.

The recommendations of the committee include empowering the Government- Savings Bank to lend artisans 95 per cent of the cost of building a house, making available suitable Crown land about the suburbs, a vigorous policy of house construction by the Government, permitting people to live in canvas dwellings at Daceyvillc and Centennial Park during the summer. The committee also urges passing a Bill to regulate rents.