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sector of the housing offort virtually impossible, This not only discourages home ownership, a very desirable development for the stability it brings, but also creates in our institutional housing social problems which are not found in the more natural environment of private development and which are now causing increasing concern.
10. I can do no more in this letter than indicate the delicate balance of emphasis and priorities at which we must aim: but I hope I have said enough to show that we have those problems under close scrutiny and that there are strong arguments against any expansion of the existing very considerable housing programme in general still less is there a case for expansion of the squatter resettlement sector of that programme in particular."
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