Drawing the line
Posted: October 30, 2013 | Author: julesbirch | Filed under: Affordable housing, Shared ownership, Social housing, Squatting | Tags: asset management, council house, social cleansing |Leave a commentWhere does sensible asset management stop and social cleansing begin?
That’s the issue highlighted for me by the sale of ‘Britain’s most expensive council house’ and the protest that followed.
I put that in inverted commas because I’m not sure the building near Borough Market in Southwark was actually being used as a house but what is clear that it was sold at auction for £2.96 million, 30 per cent more than was expected last week.
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Jules Birch 