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BRITAIN’S crippled social housing model is “unsustainable” and unbearable financial pressures are creating a “deep and devastating” strain on residents, campaigners warn today.
Tenants are suffering “relationship breakdowns, mental health problems and physical ill-health” as a result, the Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC) told the Morning Star.
The intervention comes as new research from finance firm Legal & General (L&G) reveals that 47 per cent of all households are concerned about keeping up with rent and mortgage payments over the next year amid the skyrocketing cost of living.
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