Shelter Chief Executive Calls For Mass Construction Of Social Housing

Shelter’s chief executive has called for the building of more social housing to remedy rising levels of poverty and homelessness and the ever-increasing cost of the £21bn Housing Benefit bill. Polly Neate stated that social housing is the “only moral way” for the UK to deliver the homes it needs and reduce poverty and destitution. She said: “I think we’re at a tipping point now…particularly in our major cities…with the sheer scale of people sleeping on the streets – nobody is born to die in that situation. “It’s a national emergency with a clear solution.” Read more on 24housing.

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