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It's not just about the wealth added to private land holders via public investment. It's about loose credit from banks plus the fact that London is a great place to wash dirty money via property.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-proper...

Also why do we "need" to give housing benefits to people? They don't go to people they go to landlords who have set their prices higher than the market can bear.

I'm afraid I disagree with you - the jobs aren't paying for the cost of land. The state, corruption and printing money via land are. And without it all the UK economy would have collapsed.

They will never try to stop the cheap money and money laundering.