In the past five years alone, 147 towers have been built, taking the total to 360, with a shortage of housing driving the surge in construction.
The recent Cif piece, Gentrification, No Thanks, argued that gentrification is removing affordable housing, driving up house prices in working class urban areas of London and squeezing out the locals.
As another tell-tale sign that we were seeing a bubble, inflation-adjusted rents were not rising, indicating that there was no underlying shortage of housing driving up prices.
I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
"I was 31 and living in an apartment in my parents' house, driving a car with 235,000 miles on it".
The wind has been gusting for a day and a half, clattering around the house, driving snow even against the back wall of the run-in shed.
Our friends were making big money, buying big houses, driving big cars, and I was wondering whether we could afford to send the kids to summer camp or hire someone to help clean the house.
But after Lipsky spent five days with Wallace, staying as a guest in his house, driving and flying with him across the Midwest and interrogating him on increasingly personal subjects, the count remained at zero.
Currently, entire families commute on scooters, with the man of the house driving, his wife sitting side-saddle on the rear, and as many as three children wedged in between.
"I've seen rich people, on TV, living in nice houses, driving fancy cars," he says, a grin exposing his missing teeth.
"Why can't someone with schizophrenia be living in a house, driving, studying, have children, having a family life?" When she first started to hear the voices, Alice thought she'd gained a superpower.
