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London Assembly Members savaged Mayor Boris Johnson’s failed housing plans yesterday with a 15-to-nine vote of no confidence.
The Tory Mayor has pledged to tackle the lack of affordable housing in the capital by encouraging private investors to build 42,000 homes per year for 25 years.
But last year only 21,000 homes were built — most of them out of reach for people on ordinary wages.
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
