Word: overbuilt
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Daily Mail calls Britain's housing shortage, stems from years of shortsighted planning and faulty economics. In big industrial cities, factories and office buildings have been allowed to gobble up scarce land in residential areas-and tighten the squeeze by funneling in millions of new citizens. Already overbuilt London, where postwar planners predicted a drop in population, has gained 1,400,000 new residents (total: 8,100,000) in 15 years. More than 100,000 London families are waiting for subsidized low-income housing, which, ironically, is "under-occupied," since a family cannot be evicted even if children have...