{"id":11014,"date":"2016-04-20T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-had-a-sub-prime-housing-problem-now-it-has-a-super-prime-crisis\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T18:50:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:50:30","slug":"london-had-a-sub-prime-housing-problem-now-it-has-a-super-prime-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/london-had-a-sub-prime-housing-problem-now-it-has-a-super-prime-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"London had a sub-prime housing problem. Now it has a super-prime crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAcross London, social housing is being demolished to build luxury towers for global investors. Only eight years since the financial crash, Anna Minton marvels at how, once again, we\u2019ve let the property market spiral out of controlLondon Housing Crisis: Have We Reached a Tipping Point? is at University Square Stratford, London E15, on Saturday 23 April I recently took part in a gloomy debate about London\u2019s housing crisis with the celebrated modernist architect Kate Macintosh. All the previous speakers had referred despairingly to the demolition of dozens of the city\u2019s housing estates \u2013 a process described by the group Architects for Social Housing (ASH) as \u201cthe London clearances\u201d. Macintosh talked about her experience in the 1960s designing the south London landmark Dawson\u2019s Heights, and the success of recent community projects at north London\u2019s once-troubled Broadwater Farm Estate. \u201cDoes she not know that Broadwater Farm is also under threat of demolition?\u201d I wondered to myself. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Across London, social housing is being demolished to build luxury towers for global investors. 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