Helene Mulholland on "easyCouncil" architect and Finchley and Golders Green parliamentary candidate Mike Freer:
Barnet are accused by Labour opponents and housing campaigners of limiting social housing for the poorest under the banner of "mixed communities", in effect deterring the neediest social groups – and therefore the most costly – from their patch.
But Freer – who spent part of his childhood in council accommodation, which his parents subsequently bought under Thatcher's right-to-buy legislation – rebuts the "simplistic" suggestion. He says his council has big ambitions for regenerating estates and that there is a huge amount of affordable housing "on the stocks".
"My Labour opposition in Barnet are Stalinists," he says. "They just haven't moved on. All our housing surveys with social housing tenants say they want a housing journey."
And there's lots more where that came from.
