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SOME NOTES ON
PROPOSED WAYS OF PROCEEDING.
Having now considered the work which has been accomplished
and the present conditions of the District as regards overcrowding
and house property, it may be desirable to discuss in general terms
what action may be taken in the immediate future. It is obvious
that what follows must be taken to be of an advisory or suggestive
kind. The writer is not in the least desirous of dictating or appearing
to dictate upon this matter, or, indeed, of formulating a rigid
plan of procedure.
It should be recognised at the outset that the housing problem is
an exceedingly intricate one. Its solution will, therefore, be arrived
at in all probability by means of various agencies and along various
channels. In any case, the process of solution must extend over a
long period of time. A large number of suggestions have been made
in the public press and elsewhere during the last few years, and in
many of these suggestions there is much sense and wisdom. It is
not proposed to discuss the various points which have been raised,
though such silence should not be interpreted as being due to any
idea in the mind of the writer of under-valuing their usefulness in
the proper place or at the proper time.
Here, it is obvious, we can only deal with the matter as it appears
to concern Finsbury and as related to the powers relegated to a
Metropolitan Borough Council.
For convenience the following suggestions are numbered and
placed under various headings. In practice they will be found
frequently to overlap.
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