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>you still don't seem to see the irony of bearded new media workers being priced out of the same market they were busy pricing others out of a decade ago. Beca

>you still don't seem to see the irony of bearded new media workers being priced out of the same market they were busy pricing others out of a decade ago. Because there is no irony. I bitched about that too. I don't want ANYBODY priced out. >I'm also curious about just how many Arab Oil Barons and Russian Oligarchs you think there are, as a percentage of an 8m person city? One unoccupied oil baron's mansion in Central London could be demolished and replaced by affordable housing for hundreds of people. Rich people occupy more valuable space. >Because right now, blaming a handful of immigrants who are buying multimillion pound properties that almost no-one else can afford smacks of racism. I think you're confusing an understanding basic physics with racism.

mseebach 12y ago
> One unoccupied oil baron's mansion in Central London could be demolished and replaced by affordable housing for hundreds of people. LOL. No. The politics of building on the greenbelt might be thorny, but it's nothing compared for what it'd be like to suggest demolishing listed regency buildings anywhere, much less central London. The best you can hope for is to replace the extremely wealthy absent foreigner with an extremely wealthy resident (foreigner or not).
- crdoconnor 12y ago
  * I've stayed in youth hostels in regency houses in London that housed maybe a hundred people. You do realize that they could all fit more than one family? * Not every house in London is one of those, and there are PLENTY of eyesores that could be demolished and replaced by desperately needed social housing if the politics of London weren't driven by servicing the whims of the ultra-wealthy. Nobody's going to cry about replacing these eyesores with something affordable: http://ee24.com/media/articles/uploads/2014/05/15/onehydepark-london.jpg http://ee24.com/media/articles/uploads/2014/05/15/onehydepar... Or these: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london-billionaires-row-derelict-mansions-hampstead http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london...

mseebach 12y ago

> One unoccupied oil baron's mansion in Central London could be demolished and replaced by affordable housing for hundreds of people. LOL. No. The politics of building on the greenbelt might be thorny, but it's nothing compared for what it'd be like to suggest demolishing listed regency buildings anywhere, much less central London. The best you can hope for is to replace the extremely wealthy absent foreigner with an extremely wealthy resident (foreigner or not).

crdoconnor 12y ago
* I've stayed in youth hostels in regency houses in London that housed maybe a hundred people. You do realize that they could all fit more than one family? * Not every house in London is one of those, and there are PLENTY of eyesores that could be demolished and replaced by desperately needed social housing if the politics of London weren't driven by servicing the whims of the ultra-wealthy. Nobody's going to cry about replacing these eyesores with something affordable: http://ee24.com/media/articles/uploads/2014/05/15/onehydepark-london.jpg http://ee24.com/media/articles/uploads/2014/05/15/onehydepar... Or these: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london-billionaires-row-derelict-mansions-hampstead http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/31/inside-london...