SYDNEY RENT PROBLEM.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13567, 7 November 1912, Page 5

SYDNEY RENT PROBLEM.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE'S

REPORT,

IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS

(Received Nov. 7, 1.5 a.m.)

Sydney, N0v..6.

Tho Parliamentarj' Committee which inquired into tho enormous increase in house rents, .assigns as the causes the increase of population, the growing cost of labour and material, demolitions through resumption, the growing demand for cottages and houses resulting from prosperity, the increasing demand for cottages in preference to terrace houses, and in isolated cases, the Federal land tax.

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

The* committee urges the introduction of a Bill to regulate rents.