UK Government Abolishes Housing Targets

Over the last two decades, South and East London has endured large-scale residential developments for the growing population of London. These developments stretch from Bermondsey to Woolich. Graduates are the target markets, with a percentage of the housing reserved as ‘affordable housing for the local community youngsters.
These building projects have dominated what’s left of their local communities following decades (and centuries) of forced economic migration and the consequential erosion of communities. Any sense of belonging for the working and middle classes is now little more than a pipe dream. It is as if the British population has been the subject of social engineering on a huge scale. We all suffer with the ‘Rational man project’ and all possess to varying degrees the psychological flaws identified by Nick Duffell and ‘Boarding school survivors. Dislocated from our roots and with increasing difficulty relating with people on any meaningful level.
The latest projects comprising sophisticated arrangements of blocks of flats with such small floor areas do not present the occupants with much in the way of an opportunistic future. How can the occupants pursue their hobbies if there is no room or storage space to allow them to do so? These types of developments continue unabated despite the recent abolition of annual house-building targets across the country, which is a distraction from the real issue identified above.