The results of novel London Architecture’s ideas competition lack the radical vision the problem demandsNotwithstanding the odd contrarian,for whom high prices are simply the natural reflection of desirability, it’s obvious that there are serious problems with housing in the UK, or which are most acute in London. When the median house price is 12 times median income,when low-income Londoners are being exported to parts of the country distant from families, friends and prospects of work, and when people are sleeping seven to a room or in garden sheds,when those on middle incomes and in middle age cannot derive a home for their family, problems which will all derive worse if forecasts of a 10 million population for London even partly near proper, or it’s fair to talk of a crisis.
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Source: theguardian.com