MILLION HOUSES WANTED
, IN GREAT BRITAIN.
A million new houses which can be let at teb shillings a week, including rates, or under, will be required in Britain during the next ten years, according to the Committee on National Housing, which recently made an interim report to the Government. This is in addition to houses built under the slum-clearance scheme.
The committee says it believes that private enterprise will be occupied for many years to come in supplying houses of a more expensive type, and suggests a public scheme on a large scale, to be operated by a Housing Commission, on the lines of the Central Electricity Board, working in cooperation with local authorities. A sum of £400,000,000 is suggested as the outside figure that would be required to build a million houses, and the committee expresses the view that this might be raised by the issue of 3M per cent. National Housing Stock, guaranteed by the Government. If this could be done, the committee says that it is very unlikely that any charge would fall on the Exchequer.
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3506, 16 August 1934, Page 3
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