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What was the Conservatives target of new houses per year in their 1951 election campaign?
300,000 per year
How many houses were destroyed or unfit for habitation during the war?
Half a million
Why was their a need to build more houses?
1- Half a million houses had been destroyed.
2- There was a post war bulge in the birth rate.
3- Overcrowding only declined marginally between the census of 1931 and of 1951.
Why did Labour not do as well as the Conservative government at building new houses?
Housing was the responsibility of the Ministry of Health and Housing. But, Bevan was preoccupied with the creation of the NHS.
What were the issues with the building of new houses?
Shortage of resources such as:
- materials for construction.
- labour in the building industry.
- room for investment within an overstretched economy.
Who was appointed as Minister of Housing under Churchill?
Harold Macmillan
What was Macmillans role as Minister for Housing?
1- Scale down building standards for council houses, to make it easier.
2- Secure the claim of housing upon the Governments allocation of resources.
3- Trumpet the achievements of his ministry when they came through.
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