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Building Council Homes w/ Aydin Dikerdem

Crash Course With Michael Walker

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The Alternatives to Nine Alms

When you apply for planning permission to develop a large development, right, the council is allowed to ask for something in return. And in this case, they said, we'll let you build this. We have basically no affordable housing if you instead pay for a tube station. It just so happened, increased the value of all those properties they just built. So you can see how that seems a bit of a stitch up. What are the alternatives to that? Because I... Tube station is great but we just had a crash. Imagine the kind of Keynesian stimulus, the state-funded infrastructure program would have done the jobs. People often mischaracterize our opposition to nine alms as like

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