HOUSING IN BRITAIN
MOVING PEOPLE OUT OF SLUMS
"For the first nine months of this year over 70.30(1 houses were completed by local authorities, as compared with 54.500 houses during the corresponding months of last year." said Mr Walter Elliott. British Minister of Health, speaking in the House of Commons. "This time last year there were some GG.400 houses under construction. This year there are some 77.000 houses under construction. The original slum clearance programme covered 267.000 houses. We have nearly doubled that. The latest figure is 465.000. and the figure is still rising. Of these 218.000 have actually been completed, and we have now approved for slum clearance purposes the building of 309,000. There remains plenty of slum clearance work to do, but we are doing it faster than ever. Over 1,000.000 people have been moved out of the slums, and we are now moving people out of the slums at the rate of 1000 per day."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1939, Page 5
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158HOUSING IN BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1939, Page 5
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