“gentrification”, in the 1960s, [was about] replacing the squalor of urban rented housing with a new class of younger owner-occupiers. Today it connotes the ritualistic slaughter of social housing and the elimination of the urban poor.
Early gentrification was offset by radical councils such as Lambeth aiming to achieve a surplus of high-quality social housing in order to abolish the need for waiting lists and qualification criteria.
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