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CONTENTS.
Government aid to home owning and housing of working people in foreign
countries:
Introduction and summary
Inadequacy of private initiative in providing housing.
Methods of Government aid in Europe.....
Loans of public funds to public-welfare building associations..
Slum clearances and rehousing in Great Britain...
Benefits from sanitary housing...........
Summary of housing work in countries where Government aid has been
most important.....
Austria..
Belgium..
Denmark.
France...
Germany.
Great Britain.
Hungary..
Page.
9-28
9, 10
10, 11
11, 12
12
12, 13
13-28
13, 14
15, 16
16, 17
17-19
19-21
21-22
22, 23
23, 24
25
Italy..
Norway
Sweden..
Australia..
New Zealand..
Other countries
Austria......
Introduction
Exemption from or reduction of taxes.
Conditions governing exemption.
Stipulations in contract of sale....
Results of tax exemption and reduction..
Reforms suggested.....
State housing fund....
25, 26
26, 27
27, 28
28
29-93
29-32
32-40
33-36
Administrative decree of January 7, 1903.
36
36, 37
37,38
38-40
40-49
Government aid to home owning and housing-Continued.
Austria-Concluded.
Housing work of carriers of State social insurance..
Proposed extension of housing work by social insurance institutes.
Municipal housing work......
62-64
64, 65
65-68
Loans to individuals...................
97
97, 98
Conditions of loans to building associations and loan companies.. 98, 99
Life insurance as a guaranty of loans..
System of annual and monthly repayments of loans.
Practical effects of legislation.......
Operations of the General Savings Bank.
99, 100
100-102
103-105
106-112
106, 107
120-122
122, 123
Proposed reforms...
Bill of January 30, 1901..
Bill of November 12, 1912.
Reforms proposed by local patronage committees.
Conclusion.......
List of references consulted..
Denmark.......
Introduction.....
Legislation in force....
Application of the laws.
Success of the housing acts.
Report of the Valby Workingmen's Building Association, January 1
to June 30, 1913.....
Government proposal for revision of law.
Housing State employees and immigrant labor.
Small holdings.
List of references consulted.
France.....
Introduction....
Legislation in force in aid of workmen's dwellings.
Conditions applying to cheap dwellings...
Tax exemptions for cheap dwellings...
Building and loan associations.........
Institutions authorized to construct low-cost dwellings.
123
123, 124
124
125-156
125-127
127-137
127-130
130
130-132
132
France-Concluded.
Legislation in force in aid of workmen's dwellings-Concluded.
Institutions authorized to make loans to individuals....
Public offices for cheap dwellings................
Special provisions for aid in housing of large families.
Facilities for transfer of property.......
Conditions governing loans to individuals..........
Life insurance to guarantee repayment of loans...
Workmen's gardens, public baths, and lodging houses.
Administration of the law.......
Legislation in force in aid of ownership of small holdings..
Facilities granted to purchasers..
Individuals entitled to loans..
Real estate loan companies.....
State loans to other than real estate loan companies.
Administrative bodies.
Practical effect of legislation.
Building associations....
Real estate loan companies....
Statistics of the building associations..
Tax exemptions....
Loans and other housing activities of public bodies...
Savings banks..............
Bank of Deposits..
National Old-Age Retirement Fund...
Charitable institutions ...
Departments and municipalities..
132, 133
133
134
134-136
136
136, 137
137-142
137
137, 138
138-141
141
142
142-147
142, 143
143-145
145-147
147-149
149-156
149-151
151-153
153
153-155
155, 156
Tax exemptions and concessions...
Housing activities of Bavaria.............
State provision for housing Government employees...
Loans to building associations................
212-215
215-219
215, 216
216-218
Financial aid through the State Agricultural Mortgage Bank... 218, 219
Housing work of Saxony......
Housing work of Wurttemberg..
Housing work of Grand Duchy of Hesse.
Housing work of Grand Duchy of Baden....
Housing work of Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin..
Housing work of Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.
Housing work of Grand Duchy of Brunswick..
Housing work of Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen..........
Housing work of Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha..
Housing work of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen..
Housing work of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt..
Housing work of municipalities...
219-221
221, 222
222-226
226, 227
227
228
228, 229
229
229, 230
230
230-266
Government aid to housing work of societies, private persons, etc..
Housing legislation in Scotland.............
327-331
332
Action of municipal authorities of Scotland (slum clearances, housing,
and loans)......
332, 333
Action of local authorities of Scotland against insanitary houses.... 333-335
Government aid to societies, private persons, etc., in Scotland..
Special housing needs of Ireland......
335
336
Action of municipal authorities in Ireland (slum clearances, housing,
and loans).....