Protesters have taken over a London home billed as the
"most expensive council house ever sold" which raised almost £3m for
Southwark council after fierce bidding at an auction. The price paid for the
building was £710,000 above the £2.25m reserve price and enough to fund 20 new
council homes in the inner-London area. However, as the hammer came down, local
housing campaigners were occupying the building to try to stop the sale. They
said 25,000 people in the borough needed council homes and described the sale
as part of a process of "social cleansing" in the capital. Read more
on the Guardian website.
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