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Terraced residential houses in south east London
Cabinet Office sets out plan for bringing services like cleaning and security back in-house
BRITAIN’S “expensive, cramped and ageing” housing stock offers the worst value for money among advanced economies, a Resolution Foundation report said today.
Households are paying more than other countries but getting less in return, the think tank said, having analysed data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The foundation said that while there is “limited cross-national data” on floorspace, homes in England have less average floorspace per person than many similar countries, including the United States, Germany, France and Japan.
Campaigners urge government to ignore profiteering oil lobbyists and help those hit hardest by rising energy prices
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