Where Will We Live?

Simon Elmer's avatarA Communist in Hong Kong

If the Housing and Planning Bill is designed – as we know it is – not to provide affordable housing but to remove the obligation to build it;

If the Bill is designed not to build homes for the people who need them but to subsidise private investment with public money;

If the Bill is designed not to help renters onto the property ladder but to lose more homes for social rent by extending the Right to Buy;

If the Bill is designed to sell off ‘high value’ council homes to the rich and not replace them for the poor;

If the Bill is designed to raise rents on social housing to market rates for people who cannot afford them;

If the Bill is designed to demolish existing housing estates under the banner of regeneration and replace them with starter homes for the rich;

If the Bill is designed to…

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