§ Mr. Frank AllaunMr. Speaker, I have been asked to present to Parliament a Petition, signed by 21,630 tenants protesting against the Government's Housing Finance Bill—from Mansfield, Camden, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Dartford, Walsall, Keighley, Sutton Coldfield, and other areas.
The Petition sheweth
That the serious increase in council and private landlords' rents threatened under the…Bill is deliberate and unnecessary and will lead to a sharp rise in the cost of living for millions of families.Wherefore your Petitioners pray that there should be an unconditional withdrawal of the 202 Bill and that local authorities should not operate it if it becomes law; and further that there should be: (1) immediate reduction of rents; (2) reduction of housing loan rates of interest to 2½per cent.; (3) increase of housing subsidies; (4) municipalisation of rented dwellings; (5) security of tenure for all tenants, including tenants of furnished dwellings; and (6) nationalisation of all urban land except that owned by owner-occupiers.The Petition concludes, as required:And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.