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PAYMENTS ARE APPROPRIATE AND CRITERIA FOR ELIGIBILITY
INCLUDING FOR INSTANCE THE AGE FOR INFIRMITY ALLOWANCE
RIGHT: IN SHORT AT WHETHER OUR ARRANGEMENTS COVER PROPERLY....' (V) AGREED
(VI) AGREED. BUT CHANGES IN CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS WOULD
HAVE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE 1978/79 BUDGET AND WOULD IN FACT
START TO BE IMPLEMENTED AS FROM THAT FINANCIAL YEAR.
4. YOUR PARA 7. HOUSING. I HAVE MADE THE AMENDMENT, BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT OUR POLICY OF RAISING RENTS HAS RUN INTO SERIOUS TROUBLE. WE ARE AT PRESENT WORKING OUT NEW FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE HOUSING AUTHORITY WHICH WILL LEAVE IT GREATER FLEXIBILITY IN ITS RENTING POLICY. BUT THE LOCAL POINT OF INTEREST IS THERE- FORE NOT STANDARDS BUT RENTS, AND RADICALS LIKE MRS ELLIOTT AND GROUPS WHICH SHE ENCOURAGES ARE CAMPAIGNING FOR AN INTERMEDIATE STANDARD WITH LOWER RENTS. THIS WE WILL RESIST. ALTHOUGH NO ONE, NOT EVEN MAS ELLIOTT, SUGGESTS THAT A RISE IN THE RENTS OF THE OLDEST ESTATES WOULD BE INEQUITABLE, HER CAMPAIGN HAS ENCOURAGED TENANTS OF THE LATTER, AND UNFAIRLY SOMEWHAT DISCREDITED THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, AND WE MUST NOW DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO PROCEED WITH INCREASES PLANNED FOR 1ST DECEMBER.
5. YOU MIGHT FIND ENCOURAGING THE FINAL PASSAGE IN THE SECTION
ON HOUSING
''PRIVATE DEVELOPERS HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE TO OUR HOUSING SITUATION AND I AM VERY PLEASED TO NOTE THEIR RETURN TO GREAT ACTIVITY. IT LOOKS AS IF FOR THE REST OF THE '70S THEY WILL BE COMPLETING AN AVERAGE OF 20,000 FLATS EACH YEAR. HON. MEMBERS, THIS MEANS THAT BETWEEN NOW AND 1989 THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS TOGETHER SHOULD HAVE PRODUCED NEW HOMES FOR ABOUT A MILLION PERSONS'',
6. YOUR PARA 7. IT IS FULLY COVERED.
7. YOUR PARA 8.
ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE FAINTLY EMBARRASSING TO SOME MEMBERS, IN DEFERENCE TO YOUR WISHES PASSAGE NOW READS:
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