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Show CITY BUILDS HOMES FOR PEOPLE i . J; A scene along Ducane road iri OM Oaks estate in London showing lnmes which were built by the London countj council, rnscl is a picture of Lord I ii-t.i.-.- I'frc.y, chairman ot the count council build-inp; build-inp; loan oniniitti-c i Giant Housing Scheme to Combat Radical Tendencies Is Being Pushed by London Lon-don County Council at Cost of a Quarter Billion Dollars. n MILTON BROS N 1 It. . E Staff Correspondent, hONDOX, Aug. 20 ' Take various plots of ground. Clear them Buibl homes on them Distribute around until the patient Is better ' This is a tremendous medical proscription. pro-scription. The patient is the giant city of the world. The doctor is the London Count council. The cost Is a quarter of a billion dollars. The government authorities in en-terlng en-terlng upon this gigantic undertaking have reasoned thui Lack of house.se means homeless people. Homeless people mean dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion and restless people Meatless people mean people who listen to .isit itors People who listen to agitators become be-come rv oluntionists. Revolutionists mean a breakdown of ordered llhcrtv and government. M l ICS TO IH lid) HOMES Th resillt is that the London county coun-ty council, alive to Its responsibilities and clothed with full power by the parliament, is seeking to build homes for the people. Greater London consists of 2 8 boroughs, bor-oughs, each of which has Its own mayor may-or and council. But the boroughs cannot can-not spend more than an English penny (2 cehts) In the pound $4 M) of taxes collect'-d. upon housing schemen. However, the I.ondon county council, coun-cil, which ir, the supreme body in Greater London can come to the aid of the boroughs and it is doing so by various loans. Not long ago It gave the boroughs help to the tune of $5,-O'o,000 $5,-O'o,000 j.ist at present It Is engaged in floating a popular nix per cent housing loan for $25.000 000. , The boroughs will build and own the houses and will be the landlords. In some cases the tenants will be allowed al-lowed to buy the house in 16 or 2 0 annuul instalments PI 50,000 HOMES Ultimately the plan is for the boroughs, bor-oughs, aided by the London county council, to build 30,000 new homes it is established these houses will cost about J3000 each. They will be built 8 to 12 to the acre, so to allow for little front ards. and back yard gardens They will, In ih main have two or three bedrooms, a living room, sitting room and kitchen. kitch-en. The county council will continue to float loans as long as the building program pro-gram Is uncompleted and as long as the market will absorb its loans The chairman of the loan committer commit-ter Is Lord Eustace Percy, and among his colleagues are the labor mayors of some of the London boroughs. Old akes estate Is a good example of what the county council can do. Here, on a site of 51 acres. 14 acres have been developed and 319 cottages oullt. Six hundred more are to be added, PLANS t on IT TORE Euture plans are ty make Dagen-ham, Dagen-ham, an estate of I;000 acre9, tho first made to order" town In the world Twenty thousand houses arc planned for this place. which will probably mean a town of 100,000 people. Its estimated es-timated cost is $150,000,000. Some 150 acres of the site will be reserved for park space and 50 acres for playing fields. Sixty-eight acres will be taken up by 26 schools and there will be allowances for boulevards boule-vards and wide avenues. Smaller places will be developed as follows Iioeharapton, 1 200 houses Belllngham 2000 houses Grove Park 5000 houses, and Castelnau, 1000 house?. |