{"id":11408,"date":"2016-04-26T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/more-rent-than-pay-a-mortgage-the-tory-dream-for-london-has-crashed-and-burned-aditya-chakrabortty\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T06:15:05","slug":"more-rent-than-pay-a-mortgage-the-tory-dream-for-london-has-crashed-and-burned-aditya-chakrabortty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/more-rent-than-pay-a-mortgage-the-tory-dream-for-london-has-crashed-and-burned-aditya-chakrabortty\/","title":{"rendered":"More rent than pay a mortgage: the Tory dream for London has crashed and burned | Aditya Chakrabortty"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe capital is now a city of tenants, proof that the Thatcherite property hegemony has had its dayPolitics often lags behind reality. But when the two get too badly out of sync, what\u2019s produced is disaster. For proof, look at the catastrophe that is housing in London. We\u00a0are in the final strait of\u00a0the capital\u2019s mayoral race. An odd, ugly and racist contest, it is also a remarkable one \u2013 perhaps the first housing election ever held in postwar Britain. Housing is the thing that Zac Goldsmith, Sadiq Khan and the rest of\u00a0the candidates bang on about the most \u2013 rightly so, as it\u2019s the biggest topic for voters. Yet the terms used by politicians are as inadequate as the\u00a0policies they devise. Related: London mayor race: Zac Goldsmith is being slippery about the green belt Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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