Story: Suburbs

‘Housing the people’ poster

This Labour Party election poster from 1938 contrasts a family facing eviction from their run-down inner-city house with a family in a brand new state house with its own lawn and garden. State housing was a key election issue in the period after the 1930s economic depression and the Second World War.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-A-NZ-Labour-1938-01-010

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Mark Derby, 'Suburbs - The state builds suburbs', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/zoomify/25052/housing-the-people-poster (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Mark Derby, published 11 Mar 2010