It was 2009 when Lambeth announced it would auction the shortlife portfolio, arguing this would raise about £50m to spend on more efficient housing priorities.
That will be just fine with the buying public — who will "also demand smaller and more efficient housing with less glitz," he said, "fewer open common areas, not-so-high ceilings, and not-necessarily-designer cabinets".
In 2006, the Communist party outlawed the use of land for luxury villas and tried to encourage more efficient housing with a policy that required new communities to build at least 70% of their units smaller than 90 square meters.
The top-down planning and administration of housing development enabled more efficient housing supply and first mass housing schemes, but consequently a diminishing influence of local communities.
Case 4 also leads to another objective, i.e., to invest into more energy efficient houses, in order to further reduce natural gas consumption.
The DWP says the policy makes for a fairer distribution of housing benefit, and a more efficient use of housing stock, freeing up homes for families who need them.
Slow-moving streams are often channeled to provide more efficient drainage for housing tracts and commercial areas.
Due to welfare considerations, as well as the urge for a more efficient production, group housing of sows has been an overall common management practice in modern pig production.
Why not knock down all houses built in America before 2000 and replace them with new and more energy-efficient houses?
The Obama proposal is a modest but important investment that could improve outcomes for children, make the administration of the housing voucher program more efficient, and inform future housing mobility policy.
