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Matthew Bennett Articles

Think the housing crisis can’t get worse? Think again

In Lambeth, where I am a councillor, we have over 21,000 people on our waiting list. The average waiting time for a family home for people in high priority is around five to eight years. Private rents have soared and being evicted from a private tenancy is now the...

Osborne’s Attack on Housing is the Cruellest Blow

Looking back on thirteen years of Labour government it’s clear that our greatest shortcoming was to fail to deal adequately with housing. Despite great strides forwards with the Decent Homes Programme we didn’t address the problem in its totality, we didn’t correct the shortage of social homes after the Thatcher-Major years and the accompanying house price boom left all too many excluded, it’s part of the reason for the growth of the BNP.

Osborne’s Attack on Housing is the Cruellest Blow

Jun 28, 2010 | Articles, Section: Web exclusive

It is for these reasons that mechanisms to lessen the distorting effect of the market on housing are so important; it...

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