
Bramall Court, Matthias Court and Adelphi Court, Silk Street, Salford photo by Ian Roberts is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Social housing towers in Salford, UK: fading hope for Britain's underclasses?
In Britain, government funding focus has shifted away from housing for those most in need and towards affordable housing support for a broader range of income brackets. There is as yet no evidence that wealthiest 1% of society is benefiting from this shift. But government housing support is beginning to target the needs of the “poor” middle class who have been stung by high housing prices.
As a consequence of these “affordable housing” policies, those on the bottom economic rungs, with lowest incomes and greatest housing needs, are facing a gloomy future.
Read more in The Salford Star: The Death of Social Rent Properties in Salford