Considering the serious involvement of the city council, addressing homelessness and housing stress should take precedence.
Building homes has all too frequently been conflated with other endeavours and appears to not always be the primary focus.
In this instance, it is portrayed as a means of aiding our neighbourhood football team, but it is not a legitimate goal of local government.
Providing appropriate housing for town residents is one of local councils’ primary goals.
Establishing a direct works department is obviously asking for too much, but ideally local businesses may be hired to handle the task.
One may safely assume that no employees of Alllied Commercial Exporters, Thames Plaza Ltd., or even Citizen Housing will even take up a shovel and install a brick.
They will transfer funds amongst themselves and collect fees and commissions, which are mostly covered in this scenario by the football team or the council.
The idea to limit affordable housing and rent out a handful of units at 20% above market rates is the most ridiculous part of it all.
Leaving aside the likely challenges of luring affluent tenants to that neighbourhood, this provides absolutely nothing to create accommodation for those who do not make six figures.
For those involved in the complex network of businesses managed by relatives of Southend United’s retiring chairman, everything will be OK.
The City Council has an agreement in place to pay Thames Plaza the rent for any premises that are not rented.
It is unbelievable to me that the Civic Center’s authorities have approved such this.
Omission would be a better word than diligence.
