Housing (Local Authority Building)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 May 1958.

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Photo of Mr Graham Page Mr Graham Page , Crosby 12:00, 1 May 1958

After the war, and from 1945 to 1951, while the Socialist Party was in office, it was probably quite right to provide housing accommodation regardless of the means of the tenant. What I would call the lamentable failure of that Government to ensure that sufficient housing was provided at that time made it necessary not to consider the means when allocating houses. But in the last five years the situation has changed. There are many empty houses at figures which the well-to-do council tenants could easily afford to pay in rent or to buy.