It's a completely unsustainable position to have the right to buy at all – Michael Edwards UCL
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Michael, why aren’t you Mayor? You’d make a better one than Boris.
If I could take everybody in London under 30 back to the 1970s for a day and show them the council housing we had then, and point out that they themselves could have applied for a flat and got one in under a year in most cases, they’d be in heaven. What have we lost under the Tories and New Labour???
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You, you idiot
“an exceptionally valuable piece of work which sheds much needed light on what has actually been provided by housebuilders over the last few years” . . . read on
. . . It is shocking to think that despite the universal condem- nation of the majority of social housing output in the 60s and 70s, professionals are still pushing for quantity over quality . . . read on
Work has begun to build 142 self-contained “micro” apartments — some as small as 18 square metres — in Oldham town centre . . . read on
There is a new set of flats . . . daubed in tiny lettering below one of the artist impressions “(Flat Shown is actual size)” . . . read on
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