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HUNDREDS of thousands of council homes have been lost under the Tories, Labour said yesterday, citing newly released government statistics.
Some 208,000 properties have been sold off since the end of the last Labour government in 2010, figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show.
The homes were flogged to tenants at huge discounts or put on the open market under the Conservatives’ flagship policy of right to buy.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON