Shelter chief executive Polly Neate strengthened the case
for more social housing in calling Chancellor Sajid Javid out over his
calculations on homelessness numbers – exposed as not adding up. “When the
Chancellor of the Exchequer says that homelessness has halved since 2008, it’s
important to highlight this as inaccurate,” said Neate. In a round of
interviews, Javid said homelessness reached its peak in 2008 under the last
Labour government and had fallen by half since. By that logic Javid maintained
Labour was responsible for the massive rise in homelessness. His ‘logic’ was humiliatingly exposed by subsequent fact
checks. Read more on 24housing.
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