Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1919 — BUILD 300,000 BRITISH HOMES [ARTICLE]

BUILD 300,000 BRITISH HOMES

Government Adopt* Plan* to Settle the Housing Problem and Abolish the Slum* London. —This country needs Immediately at least 300,000 dwellings for its working classes, according to Dr. Christopher Addison, president of the local government board, whose housing scheme has just been approved by the British w’ar cabinet. A bill outlining his Ideas Is to be presented soon to the house of commons. State assistance will be given only within the next 12 months to schemes submitted to the local government board and must be carried out within the next tw r o years. Housing commissioners are being appointed to help the various authorities, each commissioner to have a staff, including an architect and a surveyor, this does not mean,” Doctor Addison’s statement says, “that houses are to be built on one pattern. The government is anxious to avoid any such calamity." In order to do away with “slums" it Is proposed the same financial aid be given for clearing and improving insanitary areas as for building new houses on new sites.