London had a sub-prime housing problem. Now it has a super-prime crisis

Crosswise London, societal lodging is beingness dismantled to anatomy sumptuosity towers for globular investors. Lonesome ogdoad geezerhood since the fiscal smash, Anna Minton marvels at how, again, we’ve let the holding mart coiling out of restraint I latterly took office in a gloomful argumentation around London’s trapping crisis with the notable modernist designer Kate Mac . All the late speakers had referred despondently to the wipeout of lots of the city’s lodging estates – a summons described by the radical Architects for Societal Lodging (ASH) as “the London clearances”.

Mac talked roughly her know in the Sixties design the southward London watershed Dawson’s High, and the achiever of late community projects at northerly London’s once-troubled Broadwater Raise Land. “Does she not cognise that Broadwater Produce is likewise nether menace of destruction ?” I wondered to myself. Preserve interpretation...