Re: General Developments
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 12:46 pm
Frank wrote:Surely the easiest way to build 'affordable' housing is to build rubbish?
Which is the defence developers offer in the original Guardian article about Manchester being the "0% City"
The council’s focus is about increasing quality at the same time as increasing supply, said Higgins: “Ultimately as a private sector developer the only way you can build it cheaper is to build poorer quality and what everybody is paranoid about doing, including the council, all credit to them, is to start repeating the mistakes of the 1960s. Look at Grenfell Tower and places like that.”
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/06/the-0-city-how-manchester-developers-dodge-affordable-housing
Obviously, there is an element of trade off but recent affordable housing in places like Ferry Road and The Mill appears to be of a reasonable standard. Personally I'd far prefer to live in a socially mixed community than in a city of 'quality' tower blocks left empty by their foreign based owners.