This pointed out, quite correctly, that London's boroughs own large quantities of land containing many housing estates of sometimes poor quality and low densities and with, therefore, the potential for accommodating more and better quality homes.
All three books depict a world that's recognisably 21st-century London: diverse, vivid, at times cacophonous, stuffed full of dreams and aspirations, of fear and friction, where the houses of the wealthy abut the estates of the poor and tension simmers beneath the humour.
This scene of highland Sri Lankan life, amid the verdant rolling hills of the tea-growing estates, masks poor levels of nutrition among children living in these communities.
Last year, the actor Nicolas Cage filed a $20 million lawsuit against his business manager, contending that poor advice left him with a multimillion-dollar tax bill and a string of poor real estate investments that had to be sold at a loss.
Ukip sensed a chance at victory among the disaffected Labour voters in the seat, which in various guises has been Labour for the past 50 years, ever since housing estates were built to relocate thousands of poor residents from central Manchester back in the early 1960s.
Yet David Cameron is taking Britain in the opposite direction: look at how hard some of his new "free" schools have fought to keep council estates and poor kids out of their feeder schools.
Although Ruskin had turned against her in a bout of mental instability, she found a new supporter, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who handed over to her the management of their housing estates in several poor areas of south London.
Abuses during periods of rapid estate expansion into areas of natural forest and onto the lands of poor rural communities have led to criticism by environmental and social activists.
The small scattered community of Oscarey was a mixture now of poor and better-off: besides the remnants of the estate families, there were newcomers.
