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Where will we live?

James Meek: The Housing Disaster, 9 January 2014

... of the poor and disadvantaged claiming housing benefit in expensive privately rented property rose. Many people who bought their council houses sold them on to private landlords, who rented them to people on housing benefit who couldn’t get a council house, at double or triple the levels of council rent.Right to Buy thus created an astonishing leak of ...

After Kemal

Perry Anderson, 25 September 2008

... results for Turkish capital. Exports trebled in value. New enterprises sprang up, profits rose and wages declined. Amid accelerating growth, and a general climate of enrichissez-vous, a contemporary consumerism arrived for the middle class. At the same time, Özal more openly exploited religion to consolidate his position than any of his ...

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