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Alex Potts's avatar

One thing that frustrates me is that there is a much more reasonable criticism of Henry Hill's piece, that if there aren't enough houses in London then more houses should be built, rather than equilibrium being achieved by classist mass evictions. But your fellow passengers, wholly unaware of their own privilege, instead preferred to frame it in the selfish terms of "who's going to do the minimum-wage jobs which make my own life more convenient?"

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Ian Metcalfe's avatar

Won't building more houses be sold at the current housing price?s Wouldn't you need to build a shit load of houses so their prices would come down? And prevent them from beconing just another set of socially subsidised housing?

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Alex Potts's avatar

You'd need to build a shitload of houses, but equally you'd need to evacuate a shitload of residents.

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