Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-08 | Page 11 | Lack of Housing Disturbs Newlyweds

LACK OF HOUSING DISTURBS NEWLYWEDS LO LONDON DON May 7 How How newly m married couples suffer by the housing housing housing hous hous- ing shortage is one of th the points emphasized emphasized emphasized em em- In a circular circular issued by the national housing an and town planning council Since the armistice says the council the tota total number ot of houses built by all agencies Is less 1 j than and as at the tho armistice there were no houses for working people to let except in remote districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis the consequence has been that the great majority of the newly married married married mar mar- ried coi couples pies represented In the figures figures figures fig fig- ures of three-quarters three of a million marriages in 1919 and 1920 have been denied the opportunity of building up a proper standard of ot home homo life lite Instead of securing proper homes of their own they have been heen compelled to crowd In with their parents or I I start their married life In furnished lodgings In view of these figures the tho government is to be urged to I recognize 1 that any curtailment of i ithe i ithe the housing programs of local authorities authorities au au- would produce antisocial i i results of a grave rave and irremediable I character Preference It h Is stated Is being given In the allocation of I I completed cl houses by most local authorities au- au i to the families of service ex-service men or widows of service ex-service men and largo large families suffering from overcrowding I