‘Slum’ Solution for London’s Housing Crisis
“Theo is making the point that disadvantaged people who are price-sensitive might prefer an energy inefficient house or one with a small bedroom than none at all.” (Independent)
Sam Bowman, deputy director of the Adam Smith Institute, defends Theo Clifford, 21, who this week won the think-thank’s latest ‘Young Writer on Liberty” competition with an essay in which he declared ‘Britain needs more slums’ (“sweeping deregulation is the only way to provide Britain with the slums it is crying out for . . .’)
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