Oh yes, Dawson Heights is such a cool building! The location isn't right for us, but those flats are lovely. I'm determined to make it to The Modern House with our future not-yet-fashionable ex-LA flat, like some of the Dawson Heights residents did 🙂
They posted this on instagram today "The Bishop will be closed for a while today whilst some repairs take place - we will keep you informed of when we will re open" : https://www.instagram.com/p/DGLPlyRtpcK/
There is a general lack of appreciation about the safeguards, watch dogs and other ways that government looks to good return on investment, and accountability.
Of course every new government comes in and says waste has to be reduced, efficiency increased, often with a tightening of purse strings.
I'm talking UK here, But the US will surely have similar processes in place. Obviously things go wrong from time to time, and that is what tends to make the papers/socials rather than the things that go right. Foreign aid was cut from the target of 0.7% to 0.5%, following Covid, stats from two years ago are here (not a riveting read):
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2022/statistics-on-international-development-final-uk-aid-spend-2022
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