£28,500,000 SPENT
HOUSING IN LONDON * British Official Wireless RUGBY, Monday. A report to-day shows that the London County Council had spent £28,500,000 on housing up to the end of March. Of this total more than £22,600,000 was in respect of assisted schemes. The total number of houses and flats provided by the council, apart from cubicles in lodging houses, was 36,500. Last year alone more than £2,600,000 was expended on housing, including the provision of over 9,000 houses and flats. The subsidy from the exchequer on this outlay was more than £500,000, and £300,000 was forthcoming from rates and other sources. The housing committee of the council recommends that the State subsidy should not be reduced, and that it would be equitable for higher rates f£r grants 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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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 511, 14 November 1928, Page 9
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