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PROPERTY barons were told some home truths by housing campaigners yesterday as activists scolded delegates at this year’s Mipim fair.
Dozens of protesters held their own against the pouring rain, crying out against rising rents, public land sell-offs and Britain’s spiralling housing crisis.
Despite the bad press generated by turning up to last year’s exhibition, London boroughs of Lambeth, Westminster and Croydon were among those present this time.
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
GLYN ROBBINS celebrates how tenant-led campaigning forced the government to drop Pay to Stay, fixed-term tenancies and council home sell-offs under Cameron — but warns that Labour’s faith in private developers will require renewed resistance