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Labour needs to be pressed to put council housing at the top of its priorities list
MARTIN WICKS reflects on Labour’s housing policy in the wake of the party’s conference in Liverpool

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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