> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# 1930-40s Housing Problem and Political Propaganda
- URL: https://goodoil.news/1930-40s-housing-problem-and-political-propaganda/
- Published: 2021-06-02T20:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-02T04:21:04.000Z
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: History, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

**Lindsay Mitchell**  
[lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com](https://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2021/05/1930-40s-housing-problem-and-political.html?ref=goodoil.news)

*Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001\. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits at Wellington, New Zealand, galleries.*

A poster at *The BFD* put up this [comment](https://goodoil.news/chris-trotter-foolishly-invokes-micky-savage/) and 1930s pictorial:

> “I wonder if in election 2023 we will see back to the future advertising?”

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/labour-housing-ad-1930s.jpg)

1930’s Labour housing ad.

Come 1943 and National was counteracting with [this](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19430916.2.65.4?end%5Fdate=31-12-1951&items%5Fper%5Fpage=10&query=housing+the+people&snippet=true&start%5Fdate=01-01-1930&type=ADVERTISEMENT&ref=goodoil.news):

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/national-pre-election-husing-ads-1943.png)

1943 National pre election housing ad.

I wonder if in another 70 to 80 years – a lifetime – New Zealand will still be yo-yo-ing between the two?

**Please share this article so that others can discover *The BFD***.