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Better?

“The average occupancy figures reveal another important social phenomenon that is not perhaps as widely known as the modern fashion for smaller families. That is the number of older people who are occupying houses of family size … the building industry should not overlook the need and possibility of building houses that are perhaps more suited to the needs of older people, whose family responsibilities are past… .”

(The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Holyoake, 5/8/53)

“The demand for well-designed large blocks of city flats in New Zealand's scheme of housing development seems to have been under-estimated…. There is a considerable number of people who prefer flat life. If modern blocks, after the style of the Dixon Street flats, were built the strain on the city's housing accommodation would be relieved and there would be a slowing up of the costly suburban sprawl… .”

(“The Dominion”, 10/8/53)