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Six to a house as a million homes lie empty
Shock figures from ONS show true cost of our overcrowding crisis

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.

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