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_at_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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