"What good housing requires, as Vienna shows, is political vision and will. The real question is not: why shouldn’t working-class people own their own homes? It should rather be: why should we not all have proper, decent housing? That costs money, and higher taxation. But it is not nearly as utopian as many imagine."

Another good column from Kenan Malik on the decline of social housing in the #UK
Oh, Vienna!

#SocialHousing #Housing #Planning #CouncilEstates #Vienna

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/07/vision-of-property-owning-democracy-still-achievable-but-not-in-britain

“Last night I dreamt I went to Sydenham again...” I often dream about the estate where I grew up. Here's something I wrote about it for The Modernist in 2021:

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2021/07/29/concrete-and-tall-grass-inventing-a-place/

#CouncilEstate #CouncilEstates #SocialHousing #Bridgwater