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A COUNCIL tenants’ association warned yesterday that Britain would become “ghettoised” if the Tories’ loathsome Housing Bill was passed.
Camden Assembly of Tenants spokesman Dorian Courtesi told the Star that his north London community would be destroyed, as it already suffers under the strain of government restrictions on social housing stock.
As a low-waged worker living in the Barrington Court tower block, Mr Courtesi fears he too would be made to move if he ended up trapped by the Bill’s pay-to-stay clause.
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
