Sink estate demolished.
No council or housing association houses so people left homeless or dispersed into private rented accommodation.
Developers puts in plans for expensive houses where “affordable starter homes” means £400,000 (London) or £250,000 (rest of the UK).
Sorted.
Got to hand it to the man …
As explained in mote detail here:
” … These are not “affordable’”homes. They are worth up to 17 times the national average wage. For the government claiming “there is no money left” then to find billions to hand over to developers to knock up such expensive homes is an outrage. At a stroke, ministers have redefined affordable so that in the capital it now means nearly half a million quid. As the Highbury Group of housing specialists points out, that will enable big building firms to ride roughshod over the needs of local communities and the demands of local councils, and just throw up the most expensive flats they can get away with.
This is terrible policy and stupid politics. Come the 2020 general election, Mr Cameron may be able to claim he has encouraged the mass building of affordable homes – but voters, even Tory diehards, will not be able to afford the things. Some victory.”
East Devon Watch 