[HOUSING boroughs, who least tenants. The second strand…]
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HOUSING boroughs, who least tenants.
The second strand of the attack on council housing is a savage attack on the building programme.
All activity in the outer boroughs and outside London is to be wound up as soon as possible.
REDUNDANCIES
This décision hacks over 13,000 dwellings out of the programme over the next five years and will create substantial redundancies in the building trade and among the GLC's architects and housing staft.
Especially disliked by the Tories are the direct labour force, builders who work directly for the council in competition with the private sector.
An ominous silence descends whenever the future of the GLC construction force is mentioned at County Hall, but it is becoming more and more obvious that their days are numbered, and that-as each contract they are on is finished they will be laid off.
The estates that they cannot sell to the tenants may prove an embarassment to the Tories.
They want to hand them over the boroughs en bloc, but many the boroughs don't want them.
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