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POOR families are being “socially cleansed” from Britain’s biggest cities because of the Tory housing crisis, Jeremy Corbyn warned yesterday.
The Labour leader said people living in privately rented homes are being forced out of their communities as a consequence of government’s failure to regulate landlords.
He spoke of the growing “unfairness” under the Tories as he launched the party’s campaign for elections being held in Scotland, Wales and English county boroughs on May 5.
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