Social housing in London has taken a lot of heat on twitter this weekend.
Are social renters disproportionately economically inactive people? (Who should be moved / encouraged out of the capital to make way for productive young professionals?)
Wanted to look into the numbers ⬇️
the social housing system isn't perfect - but I can't wrap my head around ppl on twitter dot com calling social housing the 'chief villain' of the housing crisis, bro the empty second homes, oligarchs, YIMBY newbuild slum flats and wealth hoarding landlords are right there
'economically inactive' yet the unpaid carers living in these social homes hold up half the sky. our entire economy n society wouldn't function without them.
9% of the population are unpaid carers n around 20% of them live in social housing. Always forgotten in these convos
In some London boroughs, 2 in 5 properties are socially rented. Vast swathes of prime, inner london land is occupied by decaying, poorly managed council housing, inhabited by an economically inactive population. My latest for the @Telegraph https://t.co/VZD5gSszE4
Polanski is a joke. Living in a million pound home 😡 *farmer walks by* of course a million is not a lot, hardly worth taxing *moslem walks by* though the welfare bill in this country is much too high *pensioners walk by on their way to P&O* but I suppose exceptions can be made.
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