Boris Johnson has led cheerleading for the global super-wealthy as they buy up the capital’s best housing,says damning reportPoliticians are acting as “ushers and butlers” to the world’s wealthy, allowing the seemingly unstoppable construction of mansions, or mega-basements and luxury apartments in London at the expense of housing for the destitute 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.
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Source: theguardian.com