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Entries from Londonist tagged with 'housingshortage'

October 23, 2008

Overseas students want to be near London. We can understand that. A depressed Croydon MP moonlighted whilst on sick leave from the Commons. He’s not planning to stand again. Boris has decided he loves skyscrapers after all. …which is good ‘cos we’re running out of housing at a rate of knots. Oyster Zip cards are not all that zippy. BAA say that Heathrow needs a high speed rail link AND the third runway. Greedy,......

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July 11, 2008

First Kilo the Cat, now Diesel the Dog – call it animal cruelty, antipathy, or apathy, it all incenses us just the same. Below we mete out armchair justice (and reveal why our law career never got off the ground). The Facts: A June 22 fire in a flat above their home left the Driscoll family, including healthy 5-year-old golden retriever Diesel, without a place to live. Islington Council found the family emergency housing......

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