In 1972 it may well have illustrated the vast amounts of working class people from their close nit communities and stuffed into tower blocks or new towns like: Harlow, Crawley, Stevenage or Basildon by ruthless 'Rachman' type property developers, so that they can demolish, gentrify or rent for higher prices to incoming imigrants.
In 2012 (and there-after) a similar thing is happening, inner city communities are being dissipated through spiraling rental costs, no available social housing left (thanks to the Thatcherite right to buy scheme) and the boom in developers having a monopoly on building investment properties and nothing else. The poor and those on moderate incomes being stuffed into tiny rabbit hutch houses and part/rent apartments in the sticks and the provinces where they need to be shorter in height just to spread out in their new home.
Nothing changes....I'm sure if Rachman were alive today; The Queen would have had him knighted for his contributions to the Tory Party.
Peter Gabriel was incredibly ahead of his time.
In 1972 it may well have illustrated the vast amounts of working class people from their close nit communities and stuffed into tower blocks or new towns like: Harlow, Crawley, Stevenage or Basildon by ruthless 'Rachman' type property developers, so that they can demolish, gentrify or rent for higher prices to incoming imigrants.
In 2012 (and there-after) a similar thing is happening, inner city communities are being dissipated through spiraling rental costs, no available social housing left (thanks to the Thatcherite right to buy scheme) and the boom in developers having a monopoly on building investment properties and nothing else. The poor and those on moderate incomes being stuffed into tiny rabbit hutch houses and part/rent apartments in the sticks and the provinces where they need to be shorter in height just to spread out in their new home.
Nothing changes....I'm sure if Rachman were alive today; The Queen would have had him knighted for his contributions to the Tory Party.