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Understanding what is happening in housing in London means understanding that London is a world city, subject to market pressures well beyond the boundaries of the Greater London Assembly. Increasingly, this means that Londoners looking for a home to rent or buy are at the mercy of forces well beyond the simple ones of supply and demand of housing for other Londoners.
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Dittmar, H. (2019). London’s Housing Problems are Beyond the Power of Market Forces to Solve. In: My Kind of City. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-64283-037-8_43
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