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What do we mean by affordable housing?
The opening event in Rethinking Cities' Conversations on Future lifestyles for 2008 is the topical issue of affordable housing.Several local authorities are following the lead of London's Mayor Ken Livingstone of demanding up to 50% of new developments to offer 'affordable housing' but when built, are these detrimental to the developments and is it true that many units are genuinely not affordable?
Martin Ford will introduce the topic What does affordable housing mean? will now not take place on Tuesday 15 January - a new date will be posted shortly.
If you would like to join in the Conversation with Martin, then please follow the link below to register your interest.
Register for the Conversation at - http://www.rethinkingcities.net/conversations/
Date added: 10 September 2007
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