Thread: London tenants to protest at auction of social flats worth £7.2m
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Old 03-25-2018, 07:39 AM  
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Originally Posted by KlenTelaris View Post
A concept of "protective tenant" still exists in eastern europe and it's some sort of relict from communist era, where they basicly forced house/flat owners to rent their property for only 10% of actual rent value. They trying to take care of that in Croatia but there is obviously protests against it.
Eastern Europe doesn't have the same problems Western Europe has with low wage migration. In Czech, we have Ukrainian workers to fill the vacancies created by migration to Western Europe.

The UK has a shortfall of around 1 million homes.
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