Aneurin Bevan / Beginnings and Foundations

Labour Research Department pamphlet from World War Two: Houses for the People.

‘The country is facing the greatest housing crisis in its history. There is no need to labour this fact; in every town and village in the country the need is urgent and becomes more so every day. And there is a growing uneasiness about what is going to happen when the lads come home.

Yet although the country is faced with a crisis it also has an opportunity such as may not occur again; the opportunity of rebuilding on a scale and in a fashion which will make the slums and shoddy houses a thing of the past, and transform the most grimy and hideous industrial towns into healthy and beautiful cities of which we can be proud.’