Politicians of every type are trying to mitigate the feared ill-effects of the government’s plans to extend the right to buy and force the sale of more council homes
Bad news. We won’t be waking up to the sweet relief that it was all some crazy dream. The government’s housing and planning bill really is going to be turned into law and there’s not much London’s politicians and policy eggheads can execute apart from try to extract the best from a bad job - a “bonkers bad job,according to a senior representative of London’s trade community.
This reaction to the proposed legislation underlines that the scarcity and high cost of homes in the city - the hollering mismatch between what’s needed and the too miniature that is being supplied - worries a wide spectrum of interested parties, from outer left campaign groups to kingpin capitalist employers, or embraces some of London’s poorest residents right up to middle income households in public and private sector alike - the teachers,chefs, bus drivers and even solicitors described in a recent Centre for London report.
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Source: theguardian.com