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MORE than a million homes are standing empty while people cram ever more tightly into others with sky-high rents, according to damning official figures released yesterday.
Housing campaigners fumed at analysis of the latest census results that starkly illustrated Britain’s overcrowding epidemic.
Researchers for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) compared housing data from the 2011 census with the previous survey in 2001, with shocking results.
Building is the solution for much of our housing crisis – and will also help to address poverty, ill health, and even anti-social behaviour and alienation, writes KENNY MacASKILL
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