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There is no answer to affordable housing, but as the rent is out of reach of the state must find a way so that everyone can access housing

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Ken Loach returns home at the British Film Institute last week had tears in eyes of many, including mine. The story of a young couple with their baby in the house more and more sordid and inns of losing their children look surprised a generation of 45 years. Thus, shook the consciousness of time, the shelters were closed punishments and advice of family obligation and the house of someone vulnerable. New campaign groups housing and the housing crisis remains at the top of the political agenda, demanding decent housing. But this government is to demolish most of the protections brought there.

It's a strange moment to undermine the security of housing, rents Council to weaken and reduce the shelter allowance, while the increase social rents. For the first time in decades, housing has exploded onto the political agenda as the absence of any affordable place to live at a critical point for middle-class children, for graduates, for people in their 30 years. The average age of a first time buyer is 37 years for anyone, without the help of parents of a deposit. Less Buyers, parents can help children and deposits are so high. Home ownership has declined over the past eight years, predicts that only 61% in 10 years. Why else would David Cameron, feel compelled to announce "a new conservative revolution of the house"? This compares to Harold Macmillan, however, their plans, at best, will produce 170,000 units of affordable housing in five years: there is no Macmillan. The accumulation of demand will grow.

report this week found refuge in average private rents are out of reach of ordinary working families in 55% of English authorities, costing more than a third of their income, while energy prices and rockets. With mortgages available and deposits too high, there are a million more than the private sector tenants five years ago. (Jon Snow is about £ 40 for rental yields half a week). Rental of private households are exceeding the number of public housing tenants. Private tenants are living a precarious life, where a lease after the initial six months, any person may be deported within two months and rents can increase in any amount. This is not a life for families at constant risk of elimination of schools and jobs. Housing crisis and the work of the shadow housing minister, Jack Dromey, call for certain leases of three to five years, as in most of Europe, so that the income of the house to do more than the inflation over the lease.

The only response from the government for high incomes has been to make rents more affordable to the poor by reducing subsidies to housing. The claim is that the housing allowance to artificially inflate earnings, but no evidence of rents fall. Turning is tight families already on the board, 269 000 are expected to have fallen into serious difficulties, and 134,000 displaced. No wonder Grant Shappa this week was given money emergency £ 42 million extra beds to keep the homeless shelter back in sight: Cameron is desperate to avoid a repeat of the rows of sleeping bags on the Strand and complete, an emblem of the Thatcher era.

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