MILLION HOUSES BUILT IN BRITAIN
RECORD SINCE ARMISTICE MEETING THE SHORTAGE British Wireless—Press Assn.—Copyright RUGBY, Sunday. Official figures which have been published show that over one million houses have been built in England and Wales since the armistice. The actual number is 1,024,000. Of these new dwellings. 209.000 were completed in the year ended September 30, 1927, and they provide accommodation for approximately one million people. No fewer than 52,261 were finished in September alone. These last two figures easily eclipse all previous records. The number completed in September is not far short of the whole output for one year of the pre-war period. It is to some extent due to the fact that the subsidy which was granted to builders was reduced In respect of houses completed after the end of September so that special efforts were made by builders during that month. “The Times” says that the millionth house, wherever it may be, must stand as a silent tribute to the determined endeavour made by the State, by local authorities, and by private enterprise, to overtake the arrears in housing accommodation which accumulated during the war.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 178, 18 October 1927, Page 1
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