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Save the social housing sector
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Why is this important?
The Housing Bill together with measures already proposed by the Chancellor threaten to bring to an end the availability of affordable housing which has to date been available for a third of the population. Without a truly affordable rented sector, people will have to find a solution to their housing needs from the uncontrolled and increasingly expensive private rented sector or open market of housing for sale. No civilised country can operate without an affordable rented sector. The USA offers a warning: affordable housing there means trailer parks or "projects" with a growing but still very small community land trust sector. It was their attempt at "sub-prime housing" provision which caused the banking crisis.