Government spends four times more subsidising private housing than building affordable homes
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This conservative government and the ConDem coalition before them, perpetuate shameful policies to (a) create division within society and (b) ensure that the cost of housing in both the private and rented sectors remains artificially high.Divide and rule has always been the credo of the "establishment" in their dealings with ordinary people. It is a vile strategy executed by dispicable politicians to benefit their supporters and benefactors.In the meantime, more and more people are forced into homelessness because they are not able to afford the ever increasing burden of rents or the spiraling costs of house purchase. The National Audit Office criticises the government, reporting a sharp rise in homelessness over the past five years,brought about by increasing private sector rents and cuts in housing benefit.
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The report goes on to state that homelessness has increased every year since 2010, with rises in rough sleeping and households living in temporary accommodation. This situation is a direct result of government policies,which are subsidising high cost private housing for sale, to the exclusion of building affordable homes for low income families, for rent or assisted purchase.
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This callous indiference towards sections of our society, is an abdication of government responsibility and is directly responsible for growing numbers of people living in tents pitched on small areas of waste ground, or sleeping in doorways of shops or other public areas or living in totally inadequate "temporary accommodation". It is a situation whch no civilised should tolerate in the 21st Century. In many ways, this government is producing housing conditions not seen in the United Kingdom since the 1930's. It is a situation which we must resolutely resist and vigorously oppose.
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