Re:Ministers pledge to end 'poor doors' in new build housing
by madaxe_again on Saturday July 20, 2019 @06:22AM
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Balderdash - unless you count “being able to work” as a luxury.
Public transport in London is painfully expensive, and if you are earning minimum wage on a part-time contract, a private tenancy that would be affordable to such a person would be well outside of the city, and their commuting costs would be a substantial portion of their pay - and you would need to subsidise them to a greater degree than you would by simply having them live near their place of work.
So, again, I assume you count having a job and a home as a “mountain of privilege”, and not as a fairly universal underpinning of society.
Public transport in London is painfully expensive, and if you are earning minimum wage on a part-time contract, a private tenancy that would be affordable to such a person would be well outside of the city, and their commuting costs would be a substantial portion of their pay - and you would need to subsidise them to a greater degree than you would by simply having them live near their place of work.
So, again, I assume you count having a job and a home as a “mountain of privilege”, and not as a fairly universal underpinning of society.