London mayor to rule on ‘social apartheid’ of separate lifts, floors and blocks for low-income tenants
Developers of mixed housing schemes are increasingly building segregated floors and blocks for low-income families to boost the value of the open market properties.
Modern housing developments are often segregated by tenure, with flats let at affordable rents, shared ownership homes and open market properties given separate, fob-protected floors or separate blocks. Facilities including courtyards, communal lounges and roof gardens are also sometimes divided along the same lines. However developers in the capital will soon face rules requiring schemes to be more integrated.
