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THE Tories’ vicious Housing Bill reaches the House of Lords for its second reading today as campaigners argue the policy will affect Britain’s hardest working the most.
The policy would see all existing council housing sold off to the highest bidder and put an end to secure tenancies.
Members of the Kill the Housing Bill campaign spent the hours ahead of the debate lobbying for the Bill to be scrapped.
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
