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Show SAYS ENGLAND ; SHOULD BUILD : HOUSES FOIL Mi LONDON. Nov. 18. One of the un-usual un-usual plans suggested for bridging tho transition period while England is holing ho-ling changed from a war to a peace basis is a proposal tha't the covern-ment covern-ment should build houses and cither sell them on long time payments or fur nish them outright, particularly to soldiers. sol-diers. England is wrestling with manv of the same housing schemes that were put forward in the United States when thousands of workmen were called to centers of war activities. In the opinion opin-ion of Sir J Tudor Walters, a member of parliament who has given much thought to housing, England faces a shortage of 500,000 houses in addition to her normal requirements of 100.-000 100.-000 new ones annually. Thousands in the building trades have gone into other work as all building build-ing operations ceased when the Aar started. Materials are at exhorbitant figures or unobtainable. It is much more difficult for a prospective small house owner to finance construction than it was four and a half years ago One of the plans suggested is that the government pay the householder the difference between what his house will cost to construct immediately after aft-er peace is declared and its estimated value five years hence'. Any plan that will result in large expenditure of money will be mH with considerable opposition among members mem-bers of the government. This v. as made very clear when a statement was made in tho house of commons that the government should give all war, workers a six months holiday with full ' pay as one means of solving the tremendous tre-mendous problems of changing Eng-' land from a war to a peace basis. AU least one member of the government, referring to that statement, said that the government could not undertake any gigantic financial obligation in its effort to bridge the transition period as quickly and efficiently as possible. oo I |