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IN HER 2017 conference speech Theresa May declared she would “help fix our broken housing market.”
May declared “help is on the way” for people stuck on the housing list and promised to get “homes built for social rent, well below market level” where the “need is greatest.”
But, in the high-profile South London Elephant and Castle development, her Conservative friends are firmly on the side of less-social-rent housing.
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