HOUSING PLAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 204, 30 August 1943, Page 4

HOUSING PLAN

POLICY OF THE NATIONAL PARTY The National Party’s attitude with regard to the alleviation of the housing shortage was outlined by Mr S. G. Holland, its leader, when issuing a statement of policy. With its whole policy focussed on the objective of the greatest number of people having a stake in their own country, the National Party envisages a housing plan different in magnitude and type ’rom anything hitherto attempted in New Zealand. The 17 policy points include: 25,000 extra men building homes for 10 years; new housing centres on the outskirts; restoration of private homebuilding; freehold for all wanting it; rental houses if preferred: 90 per cent, of cost found by the Government; 100 per cent, for servicemen; co-operation with building societies and local bodies; guarantee to building societies if advances increased; sound system of building priorities; transfer scheme as families increase: reduced costs by prefabrication and private enterprise; State tenants to have the right to acquire freehold; entirely new scheme of training‘house builders; slum clearance; maintenance; rates and insurance included in weekly , payments: regular repayment of principal on State mortgages; mortgage insurance scheme.