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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Prudence Ivey

Comment: the Government’s levelling up agenda must not risk making London’s housing crisis worse

Last week was MIPIM, the four-day international property conference in Cannes where governments and architects speed-date developers and financiers, and I try to distinguish between 20,000 men in blue suits.

Inevitably the first year back since the pandemic was different to usual, but what was surprising to many regular attendees was the relatively low-key London presence, something generally attributed to the Government’s levelling up agenda.

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