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TENANTS were warned not to be hoodwinked yesterday by Tory privatisation junkies said to be plotting to dish out thousands of freebie taxpayer-funded homes in an election ploy.
Defend Council Housing chairwoman Eileen Short accused the “Cabinet of landlords” of planning the desperate giveaway to bribe voters — but advised people not to fall for it.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is said to want the manifesto pledge to “gift” social tenants in England their house after a year in work.
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
