| AdminHistory | A Finance Sub-Committee was appointed in January 1913, and its main function was to advise the main Town Planning Committee on all financial matters. In June, 1917, the Town Planning Committee became the Housing and Town Planning Committee, and the Finance Sub-Committee became the Housing and Finance Sub-Committee. This was to help advise the main committee on matters of housing, particularly working class housing, as well the health and welfare of those living in such housing, which had now become an acute problem. The sub-committee was required to look at the number of new houses needed, finances and confidence in the house market. In November, 1918, the sub-committee was renamed the Housing Sub-Committee, and its duties were turned over completely to the question of housing, especially as the war was coming to an end and soldiers were to be demobilised. Lloyd George’s coalition Government won the 1918 general election overwhelmingly, and set about rewarding the efforts of Britain's servicemen with a programme of reforms that included the construction of 200,000 houses during the period 1919 to 1922. |