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A FATHER has told the Morning Star of his fears that the Tory Housing Bill will force his adult children to live with him for the rest of their lives.
Harlow’s Sumners estate resident Mick Patrick’s two sons, aged 22 and 24, were still living with him as austerity Britain trapped them in low-waged and precarious jobs.
David Cameron’s plans to end secure tenancies and sell off “high-value” social homes on the open market would leave families like Mr Patrick’s on the brink of homelessness.
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
