{"id":149944,"date":"2025-03-25T17:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/something-vital-is-missing-from-labours-housing-policy-council-houses-abi-oconnor\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:11:20","slug":"something-vital-is-missing-from-labours-housing-policy-council-houses-abi-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/something-vital-is-missing-from-labours-housing-policy-council-houses-abi-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"Something vital is missing from Labour\u2019s housing policy: council houses | Abi O'Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe government\u2019s new planning bill looks likely to serve the interests of landlords rather than hard-up rentersAmelia* is a full-time working mother of two being forced to leave her home because she can\u2019t afford the latest rent increase from her private landlord. On paper, Amelia\u2019s one of the luckier ones: she has a stable job and lives in a city where rents are 35% lower than the national average. Yet for three months, Amelia has failed to find a single alternative home she could afford.Though she is theoretically eligible for social housing, joining the 1.3m households already trapped on waiting lists won\u2019t fix her immediate crisis. Neither, it seems, will Labour\u2019s flagship pledge to build 1.5m new homes.Abi O\u2019Connor is an urban sociologist who researches the political economy of housing, land and regional inequality at the New Economics Foundation and the University of Liverpool Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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