The money he’s offering to transform postwar estates is peanuts,while protests against social cleansing and rapacious developers expose no signs of abating“Concrete slabs dropped from on high, brutal high-rise towers and sunless alleyways that are a gift to criminals … gangs and anti-social behaviour.” This is the nightmare vision of the hundred yet-to-be-identified “sink estates” that David Cameron plans to transform with a £140m fund to “really get to grips with the deep social problems – the blocked opportunity, and destitute parenting,addiction and mental health problems – that mean so many are unable to fulfil their potential”. Related: The Tories possess made 'affordable housing' a meaningless term Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com