LABOUR’S detailed pledge to deliver one million “genuinely affordable” homes in England over 10 years could put Jeremy Corbyn on the road to Downing Street.
Housing is the Tories’ Achilles heel because it exposes their false claims of concern for the “just about managing.”
Their determination to just tinker with the problem and use public funds to assist first-time buyers at a price level far beyond the reach of most would-be home owners exposes their refusal to tackle a broken housing market.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
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