| Comment | The buildings are *fucked,* is the short answer. The local council cannot afford to carry out the necessary remedial works to unfuck them (and the longer they lie in the condition they're in, the worse the situation is going to get), and the price-tag reflects that you'd pay £6-8k for a flat that was in an uninhabitable, unsafe building. Not to mention that the decline of the shipyards basically spelled doom for places like Port Glasgow because these tenements predominantly served as housing for ship-builders, labourers and other working class men & women who made that industry function - since it has disappeared, there is less pull for people to live there and hence we end up with situations like this.. |
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