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Campaigners called for a boycott of the Mipim property fair yesterday, accusing politicians of neglecting people in need of homes.
The jamboree at Olympia in London will see representatives of local authorities schmoozing with construction companies and property developers.
A reported 20,000 people across Britain are still waiting for a place to live.
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