CC # 138 — in which we provide our readers with some forgotten standards to evaluate the livability of new (and existing) homes and apply them to current and future "affordable" projects.
What are the long term social and health effects of cubby-hole apartments and condos?
What are the social costs of mini sized accommodations?
How does simply warehousing people in substandard high rise hovels affect the social fabric?
I do not think our locals know and our politicians do not want to know.
I have seen it and it was called the 'Roundshaw' estates in South London, when I lived in Wallington in 1980.
It was evil and was a breeding ground for social decay, corruption, and dystopia. The quaint English "No-Go" areas was coined for Roundshaw and the many other housing estates like Roundshaw that dotted London.
Today, the towers are gone and in their place scalable, two to three story maisonettes, which have replaced a dystopian landscape to at least a livable one.
But of course, Eby's housing policy is ll about land speculator/developer profit and to hell with the poor souls who are destined to live in Vancouver's version of Roundshaw.
What are the long term social and health effects of cubby-hole apartments and condos?
What are the social costs of mini sized accommodations?
How does simply warehousing people in substandard high rise hovels affect the social fabric?
I do not think our locals know and our politicians do not want to know.
I have seen it and it was called the 'Roundshaw' estates in South London, when I lived in Wallington in 1980.
It was evil and was a breeding ground for social decay, corruption, and dystopia. The quaint English "No-Go" areas was coined for Roundshaw and the many other housing estates like Roundshaw that dotted London.
Today, the towers are gone and in their place scalable, two to three story maisonettes, which have replaced a dystopian landscape to at least a livable one.
But of course, Eby's housing policy is ll about land speculator/developer profit and to hell with the poor souls who are destined to live in Vancouver's version of Roundshaw.