The Housing Question (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Housing Question The Housing Question is the domestic question of the day. Statesmen and thinkers are recognizing that it lies at the root of other great social questions. The current of public opinion, which has Howed so strongly during the Victorian era in the direction of the amelioration of social conditions, is now daily gathering strength on this subject. Amongst others the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Rosebery, and Mr. Ritchie have indicated the need of reform. Whenever a great question arises there are always many remedies suggested which, though disinterested in themselves, will not bear the test of recognized principles of action. In this book I have endeavoured to bring the more important housing proposals to this test, and to show which of them, in my opinion, are practicable or valuable, and which cannot come under that description. Of the two great branches of legislation involved in the subject - sanitary and housing legislation - I have attempted to give a summary in non-legal phraseology. Apart, perhaps, from those municipalities which have taken action in housing, I believe there is but little general knowledge of housing law. Nor are the language and style of composition of statutory law easily comprehensible by unpractised eyes. The want of a cheap, easily-accessible book on the law of the subject has prevented that knowledge from being widely diffused. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.