{"id":7958,"date":"2016-03-15T01:38:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-tale-of-two-cities-winners-and-losers-in-londons-social-housing-divide\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T01:54:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:54:46","slug":"a-tale-of-two-cities-winners-and-losers-in-londons-social-housing-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-tale-of-two-cities-winners-and-losers-in-londons-social-housing-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two cities: winners and losers in London's social housing divide"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn 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\u2019s 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 \u201cunits\u201d are people\u2019s homes and that \u201ccommunity\u201d 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…A tale of two cities: winners and losers in London’s social housing divide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one part of London, residents are being bulldozed out of council-built homes to make...<\/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-7958","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\/p75ss1-24m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29857,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mangere-off-the-plan-housing-scheme-to-house-around-4000-residents-in-1200-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":7958,"position":0},"title":"Mangere off-the-plan housing scheme to house around 4000 residents in 1200 homes","date":"October 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A new Mangere housing scheme, being marketed to house about 4000 people, is selling off-the-plan residences starting from $425,000.But a project boss says unlike some schemes which were cancelled, people who paid deposits for properties...\r \r Source : nzherald.co.nz\/Property\r Read more...Mangere off-the-plan housing scheme to house around 4000 residents\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":143264,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/were-being-ripped-off-englands-affordable-housing-residents-who-are-being-priced-out-of-their-own-homes\/","url_meta":{"origin":7958,"position":1},"title":"\u2018We\u2019re being ripped off\u2019: England\u2019s \u2018affordable-housing\u2019 residents who are being priced out of their own homes","date":"March 30, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Service charges for shared-ownership houses have rocketed, leaving many unable to pay. 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