All of the houses in all of the wrong places it is an economics problem. Thousands more homes needed in the SE while whole streets lie derelict in other areas. Buy yourself a house on 'Coronation Street' for less than a used Ford. Sounds like you found yourself some pretty awful housing there Pascale.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html