theRatandMouse - London's property blog

A freedom of information request by Andrew Slaughter, MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, shows notes of presentations to senior Tory figures made by Stephen Greenhalgh, Tory leader of Hammersmith and Fulham council, which suggest limiting social housing to the old, infirm and disabled in a bid to solve the "concentration of deprivation".

Also among the recommendations: enforced "downsizing" for single tenants, perhaps to rooms in shared houses, and five-yearly reviews of personal circumstances, and the demolition of the some of the boroughs housing estates. Labour MP Andrew Slaughter has accused the Tory borough of "social cleansing". Council officers have denied contributing, other than by providing facts.

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Yeah, what's wrong with these ideas? I particularly like the one about housing single adults in houseshares. I live in London and have a good job but can still only afford to live in a househare. It angers me that people can work their fingers to the bone but still have to live in a houseshare but people on welfare get given a flat or house (depending on their situation). Why are these new suggested policies such a big deal? A lot of hard-working people live like this already.