{"id":103116,"date":"2019-01-20T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-houses-were-once-a-glory-of-the-public-realm-lets-return-to-those-days-rowan-moore\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T14:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T07:06:35","slug":"council-houses-were-once-a-glory-of-the-public-realm-lets-return-to-those-days-rowan-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/council-houses-were-once-a-glory-of-the-public-realm-lets-return-to-those-days-rowan-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Council houses were once a glory of the public realm. Let\u2019s return to those days | Rowan Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s scandalous that local authorities are being forced to rent from private landlords the same properties they once owned\u2026 before right to buyBuild more council homes. Not so long ago, this idea was, although not new, radical. So thoroughly had Margaret Thatcher schooled the nation in the virtues of private property that, decades after her departure, it still seemed outlandish to mainstream politicians to go back to what had been the main way of addressing housing need. Now, as it has finally sunk in that the private sector cannot, will not and should not be expected to fill all the gaps in the supply of homes, even Conservative politicians are calling for local authorities to be given the powers to do so instead.However, whenever the case is made, it raises the obvious question, which is where to find the money. Everyone knows that housing is expensive. Everyone knows \u2013 or did, before it was found that national wealth can be frittered and forsworn in the great Brexit adventure \u2013 that the government has been in the grip of austerity for all of this decade. It\u2019s a reasonable point. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jan\/20\/council-houses-were-once-a-glory-of-the-public-realm-lets-return-to-those-days\" target=\"_blank\">Council houses were once a glory of the public realm. Let\u2019s return to those days | Rowan Moore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; It\u2019s scandalous that local authorities are being forced to rent from private landlords the same&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-qPa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":73571,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-second-homes-boom-is-hollowing-out-yorkshire-dales-villages\/","url_meta":{"origin":103116,"position":0},"title":"How second-homes boom is hollowing out Yorkshire Dales villages","date":"December 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Council plans tax crackdown as influx of part-timers is pricing out locals and younger people and threatening schools and servicesIncreasing levels of second home ownership in the Yorkshire Dales have left the national park with a \u201cflight of working-age people, school closures, loss of services and hollowed-out communities\u201d, local\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":145537,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/homes-in-places-with-links-to-politicians-in-pictures\/","url_meta":{"origin":103116,"position":1},"title":"Homes in places with links to politicians \u2013 in pictures","date":"June 28, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r From a grand Grade II-listed Whitehall building with a long political history, to a compact London flat close to Keir Starmer\u2019s local Continue reading...\r \r Source : theguardian.com\r Read more...Homes in places with links to politicians \u2013 in pictures","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":125690,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/house-price-boom-homes-owned-by-auckland-politicians-increase-14-million-in-four-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":103116,"position":2},"title":"House price boom: Homes owned by Auckland politicians increase $14 million in four years","date":"April 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Homes owned by Auckland's politicians have leapt more than $14 million in value in just a few years, highlighting how the city's 23 MPs have benefited from the housing market boom.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Sandringham home...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...House price boom: Homes owned by Auckland politicians\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134510,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-generation-is-sucking-britains-young-people-dry-why-are-politicians-too-scared-to-admit-it-polly-toynbee\/","url_meta":{"origin":103116,"position":3},"title":"My generation is sucking Britain\u2019s young people dry. 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