Postwar building costs priced housing beyond much of the British population

Evidence

Th is crisis was magnifi ed by the higher cost of building in the postwar period, which resulted in higher rents and made it impossible for a considerable portion of the population to aff ord housing (ibid.). Th e growing strength of the Labour Party meant that the words of Davi son pressuring parliament were to be taken seriously: We say that unless such a policy is adopted, unless the people of this country are housed in decency and in comfort, the Labour Party will take all the means at its disposal to endeavour to obtain a reversal of the verdict of the election of last December. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 281

Categorization

• QUESTION: What were Davison’s actual words pressuring parliament, and how was Labour’s electoral strength quantified at this moment? Could be worth chasing for the reconstructionist timeline.
• XREF: connects to: British wartime and postwar wage growth outpaced a full century of prior gains — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 359; Postwar British workers commanded a historically unprecedented share of national income — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1485

Broader Connections

• British wartime and postwar wage growth outpaced a full century of prior gains #complicates (0.78) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 359
• Postwar British workers commanded a historically unprecedented share of national income #complicates (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1485