nov 5, 1919 - Housing Act

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The Housing Act 1919 replaced the Workers’ Dwelling Act 1905.
The Housing Act 1909 empowered the state to build a better class of home for those earning up to £300 per annum, with an additional income allowance of £20 in respect of each child or other person dependent on him, in excess of two dependants. The house could be bought, rented or paid off in instalments.
A Housing Board was established to administer the Act, responsible to the Minister of Labour. The Act provided that Crown land could be set aside for dwellings and that the Board could purchase land, erect dwellings and dispose of dwellings by way of sale or lease. For dwellings sold, there was provision to pay the Board a deposit of £10, with the balance in instalments over a period not exceeding 30 years (wooden dwelling) and 36 ½ years for any other dwelling.

Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html

A panicked government - also confronted by the need to house returning
soldiers began to readdress a housing problem it had ignored for four to five
years. In 1919 it passed the Housing Act which picked up the early ideas of
the Workers Dwellings Act and proceeded to try and reinvigorate a building
industry in serious decline.

Source: https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_94029549/Wai%2060%2C%20A002.pdf

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