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UNIONS and campaigners have called for government action to address Britain’s housing crisis to be included in the Queen’s Speech tomorrow.
Shopworkers’ union Usdaw said yesterday that there should be rent controls and more affordable housing, while homelessness charity Shelter pressed the government to fulfil a promise made three years ago to abolish regulations allowing “no-fault” evictions.
Usdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: “The UK is in the midst of a housing crisis.
“Usdaw believes the government needs to build 145,000 homes that are genuinely available and accessible to all working people each year for the next five years.
“This should include 100,000 homes a year for social rent.”
Mr Lillis pointed out that more than a quarter of a million people are homeless, including 126,000 children, and 17.5m live in overcrowded, dangerous, unstable or unaffordable housing.
A Shelter statement said: “Right now, renters put up with bad conditions and dangerous disrepair, fearing eviction if they complain.
“We need 2022 to be the year that unfit housing is tackled.”
