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MARTIN WICKS reflects on Labour’s housing policy in the wake of the party’s conference in Liverpool
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TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
THE contradiction between Labour’s official housing policies and the more radical aspirations of members and supporters was highlighted at the recent Liverpool conference.
First, the delegates voted to remit the National Policy Forum housing section report.
The only pledge in it was the promise to build one million “genuinely affordable homes” over 10 years, “the majority of which will be social rent.”
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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
