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A NEW housing coalition will hold a day of action on empty homes tomorrow to tackle the housing, climate and health emergencies.
The Campaign Against Empty Homes aims to raise public awareness on housing, including how retrofitting the 270,000 long-term empty homes and council estates can help solve the climate crisis.
It highlights a need for refurbishment rather than the demolition of homes.
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