A house for a pound and a promise

Boarded up houseWould you like to buy a house for just over one euro? That’s the radical new plan launched in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent. Local authorities there want fill empty properties and re-build a local community which has all but fallen apart as people no longer can afford UK’s high property prices. I went to the city’s Cobridge area to find out more and made this report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle Radio.

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