HOMES FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

Chronicle (Levin), 6 December 1947, Page 4

HOMES FOR EX-SERVICEMEN

LEVIN BUILD|Ei ee-|E|»ATE WITH DEPARTMENT

That Levin is showing the way m ffuitful c'd-operatidn betWeeh biiilders and the Srate in the provision of homes- for ex-servicOihdii is pointed out in the current lSsue of Change Step, tha ofiicial organ oi the Rehabiiitation Departnient. The afti'cie ddds that _ last June ofie buiidef oft'ered td biiiid sevdn hbuses-a year for ex-servicemen. liis progress to date- had been extremely satisfactory and his thira hpuse would bfe completed befort Cliristmas: , , At a cbnferenee between builders and- suB-contraciors dn t^fe one n'dnd and representatives of inrdrested State deparrments on the other, difliculties and ob jectidns raised by the builders were ironed out and, accordmg to a report from the Levin Rehabiiitation oince, the pfogress had been miracuious. 'fhe report had also added that Lbvin ouilders were more than kden to obtain Rehabilitatidnfihanced contracts, and the stage had been reached where .thdre were few ex-servicemen in Levin Whc

n'ow had ari immediate building pian. "All the rest have either had their houses built, are buildiri'g them now or have their arrangements at an advanced suage." 'Cost of buildihg too, was bemg hdld at a saVisfactory figurd, contihued the report. The average cdst to ex-servicemen was quotea at 35s a f oot. % "For £1500— the Rehabiiitation housing loan limit — an 'ex-serviceman finds himself able to biiiid 'a hdtise which in many ceritres might cost him up to and over £2000. Examination of specifica- ; tions of a typical house btiilt in Ldvin shows that good materials and fittings are being used. "Following this minor boom_ in Rehabilitation-financed building, th'ere has been an indireet eft'ect on the State housing waiting list in Levin, in ohe mohth nine, SdrVicerrien have had their names struck ofi' the waiting list and have started negotiatioris to have homes built of their own with Rehabiiitation ? finance."