Sunday 24 January 2016

Seemingly Unstoppable


People are increasingly being made homeless because they cannot afford their rent or their landlord kicks them out at the end of a tenancy agreement, according to government figures.

Since 2010, homelessness has gone up by just under a third amid a nationwide crisis in the number of affordable homes. 

And here:

Politicians are acting as “ushers and butlers” to the world’s wealthy, allowing the seemingly unstoppable construction of mansions, mega-basements and luxury apartments in London at the expense of housing for the poor and middle classes.

These are the claims made by researchers from Goldsmiths, Sheffield and York universities following a two-year study of the capital’s super-rich neighbourhoods.

They conclude that London has become one of a handful of international havens for the very wealthy, thanks to central and local government kowtowing to their demands.

2 comments:

  1. But remember, we have to let in all those Russians even if they price all our people out of their homes and bring a trail of polonium behind them.

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    1. To be the most open economy in the world is necessarily to be the most open society, culture and polity on earth. And no Government in 30 years has suggested that ours be anything other than the most open economy on earth.

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