{"id":1569,"date":"2014-09-24T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2014-09-24T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:41:30","slug":"end-right-buy-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"End right to buy call"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With house prices now up to 14 times the average salary and 600 families a day facing losing their home Unite is calling for more social housing.<\/p>\n

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Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national policy report promises more affordable housing; but Unite says we must go further than this to achieve secure and affordable homes for all.<\/p>\n

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Addressing Labour party conference, (September 21) Steve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bA safe, secure and affordable roof over your head is a fundamental right.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Steve was concerned that there was a, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bgrowing obscenity of families forced from their communities into insecure private rental or B&B emergency accommodation.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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He demanded to know what about our kids living at home well into their 30s? He said they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t living with their struggling parents to help support them face the bedroom tax, but because they could not get on the property ladder.<\/p>\n

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Steve described the benefits cap as \u00e2\u20ac\u015beffectively class-cleansing our inner cities, sanitising our streets for the wealthy.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMany who remain in new mixed developments forced to enter their homes through \u00e2\u20ac\u0098poor doors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 like 19th century servants.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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For every \u00c2\u01411 invested in house building, \u00c2\u01412 is generated in economic output, 92 pence stays in the UK and 56 pence returns to the treasury in tax and benefit savings.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFive jobs are created for each two homes built,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he continued. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThese should be good jobs. Safe jobs. Union jobs. If we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to put tax payers money into building homes not lining pockets we have to lift the borrowing cap on local authorities and give local authorities funding to invest in local homes.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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He concluded, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bLet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not forget that as councils build homes others are being lost as quickly.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFamilies are being forced away from friends and communities, priced out by private and so called affordable rents.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe need to end the right to buy. All of this can help us return to housing as homes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not as pensions and assets. Fight for social housing!\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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