Reading this, and other reports, on London's affordable housing needs, it became clear that there exist a tremendous amount of political will for government funded solutions to the city's affordable housing needs.
She was the chief, the gatekeeper to millions, someone who funded solutions — and yet she found herself in a perpetually bad mood as of late.
Describing the £2m funding as a short-term fix given the life time cost of one HIV infection can be up to £500k, Bayley said that "a long term, sensible and well funded solution is needed, not this meagre short sighted solution.
The aides then set out what they said was a programme for creating "better attitudes", including measures to encourage the establishment of "old-fashioned independent schools", and exhorting Mrs Thatcher to bar her ministers from proposing state-funded solutions.
The memo finished off by stating: "There should be no 'positive discrimination' in any new programmes," and also advised Mrs Thatcher to bar her ministers from proposing any state-funded solutions.
Now, it seems, government is going to write a bigger bunch of regulations and then send out a bunch of fresh-faced, well-meaning "enforcement" bureaucrats — a taxpayer-funded solution that is expensive and futile.
Still, as speculation that a European equivalent of Paulson's plan is being organized, the UBS case suggests that in Europe at least, a government-funded solution may not be the answer.
It benefited from the EU funded project SOLUTIONS – Sharing Opportunities for Low Carbon Urban Transportation that focuses on innovative sustainable urban mobility solutions in Europe and other regions in the world, namely in Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean.
Government-funded treatment solutions are commissioned by local authorities and often delivered by charity and voluntary-sector partners.
This creates opportunities for such startups as Collective Health, which provides solutions for self-funded companies.
The NEMO Collaboration, as part of the KM3NeT EU-funded consortium, is developing technical solutions for the construction of a cubic-kilometer scale neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean sea several kilometers below the sea level and far from the shore.
