ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a short account of the controversy over housing standards and then examines in detail the contents of the report and looks at the response it evoked from the organs of the state in the months that followed the armistice. Against W. Hayes Fisher's argument that economy proscribed the provision of housing of a higher standard than that generally approved by the Local Government Board (LGB) before the war, the Tudor Walters Report argued that good economy actually demanded major improvements in housing standards. In Whitehall, the appointment of Christopher Addison to the LGB in January 1919 was followed by the invasion of the newly enlarged Housing Department by what might be termed the 'Tudor Walters group' from the Ministries of Munitions and Reconstruction. Existing staff at the LGB, whose expertise lay in areas other than low-density housing, were largely passed over.
