Social Housing
As we near the Mayoral elections, it is worth remembering that the LCC, and after them the GLC, were instrumental in building a large quantity of social housing in London, such as this. However the policies started by Margaret Thatcher to deliberately run down the quantity of available council homes means that you can now buy a one bedroom flat in this block, behind Old Street, for £220,000.
posted by Ham at 00:02 --
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Steve A said ... (00:15) :
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cara said ... (01:58) :
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Helen said ... (12:35) :
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Ham said ... (12:52) :
post a commentExaggeration! It isn't a New Pence over 219,950!
A Steal! I'll take one.. and one for my butler!
But the policy allowed people who could not have dreamt of owning and selling property and moving out where they wanted to, to do so. Something the middle class critics have always taken for granted.
Also, those flats are cheap enough for first time buyers who would not be able to buy in London otherwise.
Helen, the issue is not (in my mind at least) the selling off of council stock which has the added benefit of improving the quality of life on the estates, but preventing more being built.