
New garden cities should be inclusive places meeting the needs of everyone
in society. They must provide the opportunity for younger people to have
an affordable home to bring up a family, and offer older generations the
opportunity to comfortably ‘downsize’. Garden cities must include genuinely
affordable housing for essential, low-paid workers, whose employment
underpins an economy on which we all depend. Garden cities must also
deliver intermediate forms of tenure for people on average incomes trying to
get on to the housing ladder.
This means that garden cities must provide a mix of tenures, including
a decent proportion of homes available ...