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THE ghost of Thatcher still haunts social housing, Wales TUC delegates warned yesterday.
Calling for stricter regulation of private landlords, GMB regional secretary John Phillips said the arch-Tory’s sell-off of a million council houses in a bid to reduce the public sector still hurt today.
He pointed out that the amount paid to private landlords in housing benefits had risen by 51 per cent from 2008 to 2015.
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
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