Sentence examples for social estates from inspiring English sources

What if the long-run interests of inhabitants lay with breaking up such social estates, by means of sales or removal, enforced by an "enlightened" housing department?

However, those circles tended to be populated by individuals representing hereditary, status-bound social estates.

Urban life flourished, however, and the larger cities and some towns continued to enjoy municipal self-government; the burghers largely maintained the rights of their social estate.

Wythenshawe hospital's neighbourhood includes Manchester airport, two motorways, an industrial estate and post-war social housing estates.

The report recommends recategorising all social housing estates as brownfield land.

Cash-strapped local authorities have also taken to selling off social housing estates, decanting the residents to outlying areas, and selling the land to private developers who build homes for sale to young professionals and buy-to-let investors.

His uncompromising position on social housing estates provoked particularly audible disgust.

He says that "many of these (social housing) estates turned into social swamps, breeding crime, addiction and family breakdown".

In 21st-century Britain, social housing estates – and particularly those described, usually pejoratively, as "brutalist" – serve as archetypal contemporary ruins.

The residents are being moved, it is said, to newly completed social housing estates on the periphery of Caracas, and to other spots around the country.

Brutalism also had the bad luck to be used in social housing estates, like London's Robin Hood Gardens and Sheffield's Park Hill, and so came to stand for urban decay.