A U.K. Housing Policy Wishlist for 2015
Oliver Wainwright pens a wishlist of urban policies for 2015—the list focuses on issues of housing and development.
Oliver Wainwright, architecture and design critic for The Guardian, names a four-point agenda for addressing urban ills in 2015. The four points, with more details explained in the article, are as follows:
- Exposing viability assessments to public scrutiny
- More council housing built by councils
- More community land trusts in urban areas
- A severe tax on empty homes
Published on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 in
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