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UPDATE: 3/2/13 On reflection I disagree with Karen Buck, I don’t think that demolishing perfectly good houses was a good idea, and it has left a swathe of dereliction across parts of the North while failing to help the housing situation. http://www.bigissueinthenorth.com/2013/02/fencing-contest/7356

During the housing debate Karen Buck MP stepped in to deal with an objection from Justine Greening MP that the Pathfinder scheme had demolished 16,000 houses and only built 4,000 in their place.  As usual Karen Buck’s eloquent reply and acute grasp of the situation came to the fore:-

Is not one of the key points we’re discussing housing in London where we have had an excess of demand over supply for as long as I can remember now reaching critical proportions and actually when the Pathfinder projects were starting they were dealing with the problem of excess supply and indeed many areas being blighted with huge numbers of homes that they could not rent or sell so although circumstances changed very quickly in fact that was a perfectly rational response to a totally different problem to the one we face in the capital.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8544000/8544005.stm