Jeremy BeechamLabour, House of Lords• May I add to Ann Pettifor’s clinical exposure of the failure of the UK housing market to provide truly affordable homes for all. “Affordable Rent is a rent of no more than 80 per cent of the local market rent”, according to the Department for Work and Pensions. It is high time for the many ivory towers of the UK housing market to be demolished rather than the council homes of my neighbours in Northumberland Park, Tottenham. They are due to be forcibly removed from their homes, built on public land, which will then enter the failing housing market. Tricky when it is a group of eight Lib Dem councillors facing 49 Labour councillors.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2018 17:48 UTC