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A reminder that the affordable housing residents of this development, whose windows look straight on to the pool, are not allowed to access it

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BBC News (UK)

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Jun 1, 2021

Swimmers enjoy warm weather in London at the Sky Pool which is believed to be the world’s first transparent pool built between two skyscrapers bbc.in/3fUKLp4

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Also a reminder that the money spent on that pool could have been spent on affordable housing.

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Kieran Joseph Patrick

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Jun 1, 2021

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Brick up the windows?

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And a reminder that the social housing project Heinz-Nittel-Hof in Vienna has 8 swimming pools on each of its buildings' roofs

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Gemeindebau: Abkühlung im Dach-Pool - News - W24

Während die einen im Freibad Schlange stehen, ziehen andere WieneInnen im hauseigenen Dachschwimmbad ihre Runden.

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My friends affordable housing in Munich has a lovely (and very well kept) pool on the roof for all the residents. Awful developers and councils in the uk see this as only for the ‘privileged’

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shoot the glass in the night.