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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 384, 1 November 1946, Page 29

7*3 ThE WAY LABOUR SHOwEd To oneloeing Not just MORE homes, but BETTER homes, has always been Labour' s goal. And a record number of new homes, plus the thousands of beautiful State homes, each individual in design and complete in amenities, provide eloquent proof of Labour S housing success. Home building under Labour has broken all LABOUR will build 60,000 HOMES in the records In 1939, before the war slowed up Labour' $ housing programme, next 5 years Through giving every possible encouragement to the 4,661 homes were built by private owners, the greatest number for eight years. In private builder, and vigorously proceeding with its Government housing schemes, addition 3,432 State homes were built-~a total of 8,093 homes and an all-time re- Labour will promote the building of 12,000 houses 0 year in the next 5 years. cord for New Zealand: Since 1937 , 24,000 loans for private dwellings were Labour has financed 4,000 servicemen in the building of their own homes_~it financed through the State Advances Corporation-~giving the lie direct to the will g0 on doing So. By opening new timber mills , by eliminating luxury building, by training thousands of ex-servicemen for building and allied trades Labour will accusation that Labour discourages private ownership. More houses have been overcome war-born shortages and solve the housing shortage. built under Labour than in any other similar period in our history. Some Nationalists views on housing What happened to building during the Mr. Watts says that the Fair Rents Act is "an interference with the Natural law of supply and demand: 4i Labour says we know only too well what happens war years The demands of war building halted the housing Pro- when that law operates. gramme which came almost to 0 standstill in 1943. Meanwhile, defence require- Mr. Sheat says that the main effect of the Land Sales Act I 'seemed to be to ments swallowed uP 383,000,000 feet of timber; enough to build 17 towns discourage dealing in land: Labour says that more land transfers are being each with 0 population of 10,000 people. Even then , when man-power and made now than before the Act was passed:. materials were short, 39,637 houses were built between 1940-1946. Mr. Holland says that the National Party wants to "give everyone the right to 1930-36, when only the Between own the freehold of his own home. Labour says they not only have the right will-power was short, the Nationalists built only 21,942 but, under Labour, the means to do it. houses. Mr. Holland says that the National Party will give "all the occupants of State houses the right to acquire them by a system of weekly payments not exceeding 19,000 ex-servicemen already housed their present rentals: Labour says that the State Advances Corporation advises Fifty per cent: of State houses are allocated to ex-servicemen and that purchase under this Plan would take 77 years! No one would live long more than enough to own his own house. 5,000 have already been provided: Over 11,000 low-interest loans to buy and build houses had been granted in less than a year after VJ day, and nearly 3,000 more for the purchase of farms. VeKTnou BETTER HOUSING FOR