THOUSANDS are expected to march to Downing Street today in protest against the Tories’ “terrifying” Housing Bill, set to still worsen Britain’s shortage of homes.

Protesters are angry about proposals designed to destroy secure social housing by selling off vast swathes of council and housing association homes and introducing two to five-year tenancies for transferred and new tenants.

After congregating at the Imperial War Museum the march will pass Westminster Bridge before arriving outside PM David Cameron’s residence.

“Let this Housing Bill go through and, in a few years, ordinary Londoners will have all been forced out and living in the capital will be a privilege only the super-rich can afford,” said Green London Assembly candidate Rashid Nix.

The Bill also proposes local authorities being forced to sell “high value” council homes to fund extending right to buy to HA renters — which would eradicate most inner London social housing.

Social tenants would be clobbered with extortionate “pay to stay” market rents if they earn so much as a modest combined household income of £40,000 in the capital and £30,000 elsewhere.

Lambeth housing co-op resident Trace Newton said she opposed the Bill as it would divide communities and was certain to make her life as a disabled person more difficult and isolated.

The government’s obsession with home ownership would lead to a loss of at least 80,000 council houses in the next four years, the Local Government Association warned on Friday.

That would add around £210 million a year to the housing benefit bill as more households were forced to rent from private landlords with less responsibility to provide homes “fit for human habitation.”

The Tories’ “five years of failure” on housing has seen spending on housing benefit rise by more than £2 billion since 2010, lamented Labour shadow housing minister John Healey.

He said this was bad news for taxpayers, “young people and families on ordinary incomes who need decent homes.”

The march is organised by Lambeth Housing Activists and supported by Lambeth Unite Community, Lambeth Unite, Lambeth TUC, Lambeth Green Party, Radical Housing Network, Architects for Social Housing, Streets Kitchen and Defend Council Housing.