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Labours New Housebuilding Project Announced - Homes Not Housing Benefit
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Massive public housing schemes were a huge success in the post-war crisis years, and we could now have a chance to re-generate a similar feeling of optimism.
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You're right... and better than the risk to us all of a help to buy mortgage guarantee scheme thats a risk to tax payers.Even one bed studio flats would be a start as affordable housing.0 -
DecentLivingWage wrote: »Y....Even one bed studio flats would be a start as affordable housing.
Is that Labour's "new housebuilding project" - one bed studio flats for the masses?0 -
Is that Labour's "new housebuilding project" - one bed studio flats for the masses?
The last thing that we need is to turn the country into bedsit-land.
We need decent homes that- Real people want to live in.
- Provide the security to support family life (whether owned or rented).
- At a price which will not ruin the UK economy by requiring uncompetetive wage rates.
"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson0
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