Arizona republican., 1917-11-25

shall be carried out at a cost esti- 1 mated to exceed Sl,000, ,060. 900. Hous- ing reform on national scale has therefore become a matter of nation al policy in Great Britain.
 Quite apart from the national housing program, there is the enor- nous housing reform that has taken place by British municipalities In 1864 Liverpool possessed the worst slums in England, but since that date it has spent millions of pounds eliml- mating it's soul destroying slums and rehousing it's citizens in model tene- ments and cottages. The death rate has been reduced from 67 to ? thousand. Before 1910 typhoid fever was never once absent in the years medical return and since then there has not been a case. Tuberculosis declined from ' to 1 per thousand, and police precautions for crime have | been reduced 70 per cent. The casn saving to Liverpool under their re- housing policy is estimated at s35O,- coo a year, or double the cost of pro- viding decent homes for working men
 Tn Birmingham, as far back as in 1 1875 the late Joseph Chamberlain realized what sound investment municipal housing was and at an eN- penditure of over $15,000,000 Birming- | ham was cleared of its slums, and this housing reform has proved an | excellent investment for the munich pality and has more than paid back l the original 31s per cent bond issue i created to carry out tins work.
 The London County council has i raised money for years past at rates | varying from 3 to per cent, to pro vide homes for working men and | their families. Some idea of the 1 magnitude of the work undertaken 1 by the, council is shown by the fact that they house over 50, 900 people, and the gross annual rentals collected amount to over s1,250.000. Just be- fore the war started they were plan
 ming further housing involving an expenditure of s17,000.000. This is all the result of twenty years of hard.-work and housing education.
 Tn addition to the government and municipal housing, there is great record of private enterprise such as the houses built by the various CO., partnership tenant societies which in the past thirteen years have built over 12,000 houses, with land and buildings valued at over s42,O00,O00 | and all the different estates laid out 1 on Garden City and Town Planning lines. There are about fifty of these estates, varying in size from to 1000 acres, and comprising a total area of about 15.000 acres, of which only about 5000 acres have been de :. veloped, with over 13,0o0 houses, rep resenting a capital investment of s17. 900 00o A large proportion of all ha loaned by the British government at low rates of from 512 to per cent and this aid has been largely the cause of the successful housing re- suits achieved in England.
 Other European countries have
 not been slow to recognize that in- dustrial housing is national obliga
 ton. The city of Stockholm for
 some years has been building and
 financing houses for it's workmen
 Frankfort -on- -the-Ma has spent
 many millions of dollars on indus
 trial housing and when the war com
 menced it had just started a scheme
 for new harbor at an outlay oi
 s1S,000.000 which included a sub
 stantial appropriation for working
 mems houses. The city of Ulm has
 made provision to ensure that all its
 citizens shall have the opportunity t.
 live in improved homes. It has ac-
 quired eighty per cent of all the 1 available building land in the city
 limits to sell or lease to it's citizen.
 on easy terms for building homes.
 No less than 1a.000 homes hay, . been built in Hungary within the las
 few years by aid of governmen loans. In Italy the problem of hous
 ing reform has received the atten
 ton of the government for many
 years