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The Housing and Town Planning Act 1919—A Study in the Making of Social Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Paul Wilding
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‘The lines of a great housing policy have been developed as a result of mature deliberations and far reaching enquiries’ said the Report of the War Cabinet for 1918. So they had. The decision to provide Exchequer subsidies for housing was a major development in social policy. It was the result of a prolonged and detailed study which began in the spring of 1916 and was embodied in legislation in the Housing and Town Planning Act 1919.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 317 - 334
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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