{"id":87140,"date":"2026-03-31T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87140"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:06:11","slug":"how-failed-1-5b-regeneration-deal-has-left-london-tower-blocks-overrun-with-squatters-and-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/31\/how-failed-1-5b-regeneration-deal-has-left-london-tower-blocks-overrun-with-squatters-and-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"How failed \u00a31.5b regeneration deal has left London tower blocks overrun with squatters and criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZM3Ak.img?w=534&amp;h=326&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The estate housed more than 10,000 people at its peak across 2,700 homes, and is set to be replaced with more than 4,000 new dwellings\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We find people having sex in the lifts, doing heroin and crack cocaine,&#8217; a security guard says as he strolls over the road. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/how-failed-1-5b-regeneration-deal-has-left-london-tower-blocks-overrun-with-squatters-and-criminals\/ar-AA1ZLLv3?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69cb7f09dfe74a3fb5de1023de624116&amp;ei=17\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&#8216;We find people having sex in the lifts, doing heroin and crack cocaine,&#8217; a security guard says as he strolls over the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Wendover-blocks.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87142,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87140\/revisions\/87142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}