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Famous south London food hall set for demolition to stay open until end of next year (www.standard.co.uk)

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Mercato Metropolitano will be knocked down to make way for 900 new homes

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[–] devnev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could be neither? Ain't gonna make progress on the housing crisis without demolishing something

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hate to break it to you, but not one of those new houses is going to go to someone who actually needs a house

Most of them probably won't even have anyone living in them

[–] devnev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

Citation needed for the second part. On the first part, it'd be nice if there was more affordable housing as part of newbuulds, but more housing supply will also depress the housing prices, and the attempts to block everything on affordability are just fueling the housing crisis.