Property News · March 15, 2016

A tale of two cities: winners and losers in London's social housing divide


In one part of London, residents are being bulldozed out of council-built homes to make way for a privately led development most cannot afford. But elsewhere in the capital, a radical scheme is putting residents in controlIt’s easy to become numbed to the housing crisis, to the endless stories of councils in bed with developers, local authorities flogging off land to the private sector, of communities relentlessly trampled as luxury towers rise around them; easy to forget that “units” are people’s homes and that “community” is not something easily won, but the product of relationships forged over generations. And that both can be brutally ripped apart.Never would you imagine that ‘like for like’ meant a smaller flat, and you would only own half of it Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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