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Housing

Great Britain · Government / Conservative Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1951–1952Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1951

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st29 November 1951

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Announces the design for the "Peoples House"

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st1951

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Calls for a housing crusade & the revival of 1940 spirit

1952

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st1952

London · Government / Conservative Party Government

Sets a target of 260,000 houses for 1953 & 300,000 houses for 1954. Announces 1,000 more houses are being built per week than under the Labour Government

Names involved

Maurice Harold MacMillan Stockton, 1st

Provenance

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