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[email protected] · September 8th 15, 12:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 19:50:44 on Mon,
7 Sep 2015, Robin9 remarked:

In some years they built more than 400,000 houses. Today we can't
manage even 300,000.

That's because Gordon Brown caused a serious recession and people
couldn't easily pay for new houses. Whole "new towns" have been put
on hold as a result.

The high figures in the 1960s are deceptive. A lot of houses were demolished
as "slums" at the same time so the net figures weren't so impressive.

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Colin Rosenstiel