MORE than a million homes are standing empty while people cram ever more tightly into others with sky-high rents, according to damning official figures released yesterday.
Housing campaigners fumed at analysis of the latest census results that starkly illustrated Britain’s overcrowding epidemic.
Researchers for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) compared housing data from the 2011 census with the previous survey in 2001, with shocking results.
Social Housing Action Campaign blasts PM’s decision to break commitment to allocate 100% of Affordable Homes Programme to social rents
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS
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



