what other choice might 'people' have?
Reclaim Brixton movement - meetings and April 25th protest planned
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ska invita
back on the other side
exactly why this is the first step and it would be great to see other local communities organise similarly - of course brixton isnt unique in this - but it is unique in having a particularly strong sense of community, hence they are 'first' off the blocks on this in london (at this scale)
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
ffsear
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Sure they were. Okay, maybe a few who were raising money for charity, you can have those. But as for the rest...
So how can you tell me that we don't count
or say that Brixton isn't mine?
Let me take you by the hand and guide you through the streets of Brixton,
I'll show you plenty
that'll make you change your mind.
No need. I lived there 11 years. Got priced out and moved away in October.
299 old timer
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Insane:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/Brixton.html
Most of the sales in Brixton over the past year were flats which on average sold for £392,603. Terraced properties had an average sold price of £719,435 and semi-detached properties averaged at £877,251.
Brixton, with an overall average price of £454,355 was more expensive than nearby Tulse Hill (£415,235), but was cheaper than Stockwell (£690,745) and Clapham (£746,818).
In the past year house prices in Brixton were 16% up on the year before and 36% up on 2012 when they averaged at £334,334.
Last year most property sales in Streatham involved flats which sold for on average £329,962. Terraced properties sold for an average price of £508,013, while semi-detached properties fetched £702,519.
Streatham, with an overall average price of £416,939, was similar in terms of sold prices to nearby West Norwood (£421,540), but was more expensive than Streatham Vale (£360,433) and cheaper than Streatham Hill (£438,396).
During the last year, sold prices in Streatham were 18% up on the previous year and 34% up on 2012 when the average house price was £310,395.
The majority of sales in Beckenham during the last year were flats, selling for an average price of £295,216. Terraced properties sold for an average of £464,607, with semi-detached properties fetching £588,282.
Beckenham, with an overall average price of £435,219 was more expensive than nearby Elmers End (£370,773) and New Beckenham (£411,229), but was cheaper than Eden Park (£548,702).
Overall sold prices in Beckenham over the last year were 14% up on the previous year and 29% up on the 2012 level of £336,077.
I think I spot a trend.
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You didn't read my post, did you?
Had you done so, you'd have seen that I'm sanguine about change - that I acknowledge that it happens - but that what I object to is the speed of forced change caused by changes in the way housing is regarded.
You talk about supply and demand as if what we have here is a simple equation - it isn't. Look to new private developments and you soon see that supply is not primarily targeted at residential demand - at those who wish to purchase a place to live - but at investors, be they property speculators or buy-to-let landlords. A normal supply and demand equation would merely be a matter of matching housing need with housing, something that could be done profitably enough for any developer taking a long view (as the builders of "Metroland" did). Unfortunately, we have a housing development culture which is about maximum sweating of land assets, and minimisation of development costs - effectively, poorly-built, badly-designed private housing that can only effectively be marketed to non-residential buyers, who can then exploit people needing housing via the particularly-useless rental legislation in England and Wales.
It's all a bit more nuanced than simple supply and demand (unless you have a degree in Economics, in which case you've already drunk way too much "free market" Kool-Aid).
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The majority of parasites are self-limiting in what they parasitise in order to live. Estate agents are not known for being self-limiting in their greed.
Not to live in Zone 2. My work is in zone 1. I can't afford that so you have to do what you can afford.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Possibly the fact that Foxtons is the only "local" estate agent to regularly do mail-outs to council estates hinting at the fortunes to be made if you exercise your "Right to Buy".
I don't think smashing up a place you love is very unique, but that's just my opinion
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
How about, communities shouldn't have to move further and further away because they are being priced out/pushed out?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Nobody loves Foxtons though
ska invita
back on the other side
a symbolic attack on foxtons is not smashing up the place you love. unless you happen to love foxtons.
You think Foxton's window went through out of love?
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
So people should be displaced from family, friends and community at the whim of capital?
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
A broken window in Foxton's - an estate agent, FFS. Not 'smashing up a place you love'.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Eventually only the super rich will be able to afford to live in London. Who will clean their cars, look after their children and serve them caviar and where will they live?
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
Who smashed up what now?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"Smashing a place up"?
2 or 3 windows broken isn't a place "smashed up", unless you're a journo.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
But Steph, the poster can't live where they want, so why should anyone else be able to?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I bet the Foxtons' manager loves Foxtons
I bet the Foxtons' manager's mum loves the Foxtons' manager, and I bet she's the only person who does. Probably tells her neighbours that her offspring is on the game - less shameful than admitting they're an estate agent for the biggest firm of cunts in the business!
This is wrong and the government needs to do something about it.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Sadly it's what the world outside of Brixton get to see as presented by the media.
There was so much positive energy on Saturday but one window puts through becomes the image of the whole event.
Very frustrating.
You have to do what is best to survive. A lot of people don't have the pleasure to have friends and family a round them. You have to go were the work is.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
LOL
One goes to two, two goes to three and so on......
editor
hiraethified
Indeed they don't and they're often the very people who get ripped off and exploited under the system you seem to accept so easily.
editor
hiraethified
What are you on about?
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