Nearly 10,000 working-age people in some of the world’s priciest postcodes pay no council tax
Will housing in London ever stop being a source of controversy? The debate around who gets to live in and own property in some of the world’s most expensive residential areas is one of the rolling features of our political landscape.
It is as much an issue for the right, which focus on the costs of social housing, and the makeup of the people who benefit from it, as the left, which focus on foreign property investment and exploitative landlords. Both, in their own way, touch on questions of fairness, taxation, migration and settlement.