Council estates: why demolition is anything but the solution
Power, A.
(4 March 2016)
Council estates: why demolition is anything but the solution.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
In early 2016, the Prime Minister announced plans for the demolition of 100 large, run-down and difficult to manage council estates. Anne Power argues demolition not only doesn’t solve housing and social problems, but in fact deepens them. Here, she outlines the hidden costs of the process, and explains why infilling and upgrading is what the government should actually be looking at, not demolition.
| Item Type | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2016 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
| Departments |
LSE > Research Centres > STICERD LSE > Research Centres > Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Date Deposited | 22 Sep 2016 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67833 |