The average housing density in the UK is 42 units per hectare, which works out at 17 per acre.
The cardinals whom Peter Gerrard [Letters, 21 November] rightly says do not live in “acres of space” still do better than the vast majority of families in the UK – and are probably less cramped than the refugees crossing the Mediterranean in hundreds per boatload.
I do not begrudge the prelates their space – but “a mere eighth of an acre” is considerably more than the Son of Man, who had nowhere to lay his head (Mt 8.20; Lk 9.58).
Dr Paul Sheppy, Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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