That's correct , they had a minimum person density per acre for new build
and you couldn't build publicly funded housing which didn't at least meet
that minimum.
This was in the sixties or poss. 50's onwards . What are they now doing with
all those high-rise places - yes , that's right , they're pulling them down
. The blind leading the blind , or how governments love to waste our money.
Geoff.
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From: "Mark Firestone" <nedry(a)mail.bedlambells.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: Unwaged
How cynical. I used to work for a company here (the
UK) that did IT
training for places like the Manchester Housing Authority (or whatever
it's
called...) and I asked this guy, why did you build all
those horrible
tower
blocks (anyone who hasn't seen it, it looks like
they hired a Soviet
apartment architect.
He said, "the more people we got in the least space... the more funding we
got."
Take Care,
Mark (expat American in Oswaldtwistle)
At 00:06 02/10/2003 +0100, Tony wrote:
The reason _I_ say that is that in the UK,
'unemployed' is used to mean
'unemployed and claiming benefit'. The government fiddle the unemployment
figures by preventing people from claiming benefits for more than 6
months or so. Thus they can claim few people are unemployed, even if a
rather larger number don't actually have jobs.
In any case, I am not unemployed. I do plenty of jobs (fixing old
computers, old cameras, building hackish toys, etc). Pity I don't get
paid for doing them, but...
-tony
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