Housing

One crisp October morning a group of Cheshire residents boarded a minibus and headed off for Shropshire. But this was no ordinary day trip. They weren’t heading for a foody weekend in Ludlow. This was a group of ordinary middle-class residents concerned more about housing than couscous or micro-breweries. A group, in fact, so concerned by the growing housing issues that they spent their weekend looking at a neighbouring county’s attempt to address the issue.

A new campaign to save social housing is launched in Westminster today. Shout – Social housing under threat – marks a new stage in a growing tide of public and political opinion that the housing crisis will only be solved through direct public investment in homes at rents ordinary people can afford.