HOUSING SHORTAGE
ACUTE IN AUSTRALIA Recd. 8.40 p.m. Canberra, Nov. 19. Australia’s housing shortage is so great that the Government may be forced to amend its policy of banning home building until after the war. Some Federal Ministers believe that provision will have to be made quickly for civilian accommodation irrespective of war demands.
The Commonwealth Housing Commission has temporarily ceased taking evidence. It is understood that the Commission has been told the Government is fully aware of the acuteness of the situation without the need for further proof. Experts have computed that Australia needs 300,000 new 'homes. "it SU.UOU houses were made available in Sydney to-day they would all be let by to-morrow,” said a Government spokesman. Professor A. P. Elkin, chairman of the Board of Social Studies, to-day declared that the housing problem was vital, since housing conditions largely determined cultural and moral standards.
“New homes,” he said, “in contrast to the cubicles the people are now forced to live in, must be jiade as artistic and varied as possible.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 275, 20 November 1943, Page 3
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