Chapter 2632 Wind and Flowers (11)

Houses in central London are generally single-family houses with doors facing the street. This is stipulated in the "Building Act" that began to brew after the Great Fire of London and was not promulgated until 1774.

Whether these townhouses are mansions or simple houses, they are all uniform in structure, and the regulatory standards are also consistent, no matter how humble or luxurious.

This kind of house is different from the apartment designed by Haussmann in Paris. It pays great attention to privacy and inevitably affects the social habits of Londoners. Reese's parents generally don't eat out. Parisians, on the other hand, like to go outdoors, congregating in cafés or restaurants.

London was bombed during the Second World War, and many houses were rebuilt. At this time, people made a dilemma, whether to continue to repair the original houses or design new ones.

In the end, it was found that residents in London still wanted the kind of single-family houses with a front door facing the street. Some people thought that modernist buildings could not stand the test of time, or these Georgian and Victorian buildings were more popular with residents. Love living and relaxing in this period style townhouse when not working. It doesn't matter if someone in the newspaper accuses, "These streets look bland, as if they were carved out of a mold."

To find people who need to visit from these almost identical houses is often through the house number, but 13 is an unlucky number for Europeans, and the house number of 13 on some streets will be skipped.

This is still related to the Great Fire of London. After the fire, the population of London dropped sharply, and many manufacturing industries also declined. The factories closed down and the artisans left. Only the banking industry is still booming. The word "bank" comes from Italian, and there is a Lombard Street in the Financial City, which is engaged in lending business.

Originally, people needed collateral to borrow gold and silver. After the fire, most real estate owners chose a more secure way. They no longer developed their own land, but leased out the land according to the construction lease contract, and the lessee After signing a long-term lease, the latter rents the land and builds a house on it by himself. After the lease contract expires, the real estate owner automatically owns the ownership of the subsequent building, so there will be row houses.

It is low-cost and meets regulatory standards. Who will build a palace for the landlord and let him take it away after the lease expires. Of course, the terraced houses must be rented out as soon as possible to make money, so in some streets, the unlucky house number 13 just "disappeared".

These houses are managed by an intermediary, and the streets and squares around the houses are named after the family name. As London continues to expand, the row houses are not enough. The places where civilians live are full of noise, crowded traffic, and stale air. This also led to the fact that as long as there is fresh air and you can reach London by horse-drawn carriage, you can repair the house. The suburbs of London began to develop rapidly, and the price of the land also increased dozens of times.

The house of the Weasley family is not only far away from London, but also far away from the wizarding village. It is built very... "casual", looks crooked like Gringotts, and if it can't fall down, it doesn't have the qualifications to be a "property" conditions of.

But no matter what, it is "home". During the walk, Pomona saw many homeless people looking for food in the trash can.

Before Roosevelt's New Deal, Americans lived mainly on food handouts, but occasionally they had bad luck, so restaurant trash cans became their targets.

Thomas Jefferson believed that due to the unique circumstances of the United States, "there are no poor people" in the United States. In this country, everyone can acquire property, cultivate land, and "be able to support a family with sufficient food and clothing, and moderate labor", as long as there is no interference.

The "Stamp Duty Act" made Americans across the Atlantic smell the breath of despotism from the slight wind. The British "Declaration of Power" retained the Puritan's regulations on holding weapons. The first article of the 1789 Constitutional Amendment stipulated that Violation of the right of the people to keep and bear arms. John Adams believed that the weapons in the hands of the people can be used for personal defense, and a country composed of free people who know how to cherish freedom and have weapons in their hands is invincible.

However, when Roosevelt was in power, a famine occurred in the United States. At the same time, due to unsalable dairy products, farmers dumped milk in order to prevent milk from being too low and maintain prices.

Of course, the milk is poured into the sewer or the river, and the garbage cans are filled with "solids". Some vegetables that are of good quality, but not good in appearance, are discarded by restaurants. The Great Depression itself did not have much impact on the rich. They still live as before.

This caused people who did not receive relief food to fight over "kitchen waste". 50 people fought in a melee, and the police could not stop it.

The aborigines chose to go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables to eat, but they also received warnings because they entered "private territory".

It's a miracle Jacob's Bakery didn't close under the circumstances, and it didn't get robbed in Brooklyn, probably because he was a World War I veteran.

In short, Roosevelt proposed the Second Bill of Rights, which included the right of every family to obtain adequate housing. There was an infrastructure plan around it. People should not only have housing, but also "decent" housing. Under the National Service Act, World War II veterans could live in houses built by infrastructure projects.

At the same time as the Great Depression, the Anti-Japanese War also started. In 1920, there were 35 countries. In 1938, there were only 17 countries, and in 1944, they were reduced to 12 countries. For front-line soldiers to fight without scruples, they need to be freed from worries and provided with a "decent" standard of living for them and their families.

Rather than chatting with economists about economic laws while starving, Roosevelt chose a more practical approach—creating job opportunities, which is what the presidents after Roosevelt did.

Jefferson believed that government action interfered with individual property rights; Roosevelt believed that property rights ceased to exist without government assistance.

After all, these two presidents are in different eras, and the contradictions and problems they face are also different. Anyway, in Roosevelt's time, starvation and displacement were entirely possible in the United States.

The chairs for pedestrians in London are specially designed. It's okay to sit on for a while, but uncomfortable to lie on. This is to prevent homeless people from sleeping on them.

Pomona was feeling a little tired from all the walking, but she wasn't going to sit on those benches.

Seeing this scene, it is not difficult to understand why Lily chose to stay in the magical world.

Petunia was married to Fernon, and he was one of those Muggles who drove around and had a bad opinion of anyone who looked "weird".

"I want to see Harry." Pomona stopped abruptly. "Do you know where he lives?"

"Yes," said Severus, "he's at the Weasleys' house now."

"What?" Pomona exclaimed.

"You don't know?" he asked back.

"Why? When? No." Her mind was in utter confusion.

"He doesn't need to live with his relatives for a full summer vacation. He experimented last semester." Severus said. "He lived in the Leaky Cauldron for a month, and the summer vacation this semester doesn't add up to a month."

"So, he went to the Weasleys for the summer?" asked Pomona.

"You want to go and see?" he said indifferently.

"No...let's go back to the party." Pomona couldn't help but hold his nose. "There's an unpleasant stench in this street."

"Yes, ma'am," Severus said cheerfully, leading her to Disapparate.