Pretty interesting case study on what social housing bods call “cross-subsidisation”, but let down by an awful headline. It’s not booming, a lot of it’s not council, and I’m currently sat in a beautiful 1930s council estate. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/20/council-housing-its-back-its-booming-and-this-time-its-beautiful …
-
-
Replying to @DawnHFoster @TheFabledAesop
True. Cross subsidy does not build social rent homes at scale and is not sustainable in a changing housing market. At best it build so called affordable homes which are not affordable to many on low or no incomes
1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
Replying to @tomemurtha @TheFabledAesop
Yeah, the scheme Olly mentioned has some units for intermediate and social rent, but I know from doing the IH housebuilding survey one year the SR/IR rent builds are plummeting, and as you say, cross-subsidy doesn’t deliver scale
3:51 AM - 20 Jun 2019
0 replies
1 retweet
0 likes
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
msdawnfoster@gmail.com Tusk is the best Fleetwood Mac album. Only care about LFC.