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A BUNCH of profiteering landlords have bought up chunks of former council housing in Barnet, north London, a trade union revealed yesterday.
According to research by general union GMB, of 768 flats sold off under right-to-buy, 224 are now let out. Of these, 38 have been bought up by landlords with more than one property — developer Barratt Homes for instance owns a total of nine flats.
The union’s political officer Gary Doolan said the investigation had laid bare “the harsh reality of the exploitation of our social housing stock.
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
