There are today 1.7m households on social waiting lists,
yet the government’s focus is on creating a mini-housing boom through its Help
to Buy scheme. There are two housing
systems in the UK receiving different rhetorical and real terms treatment from
the government and the media. The first is the cossetted home ownership sector which
receives billions in subsidy and is promoted as the ‘natural’ tenure for the
UK’s ‘strivers’. Over the fence, there is social housing, which is gradually
being whittled away through under-investment and sales and portrayal of its
tenants as skivers and scroungers. Both approaches are contributing to a
growing housing crisis in the UK. Read more on Left Foot Forward.
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