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WELL done Simon Henig, leader of Durham County Council. Thanks to the efforts of him and other council leaders, a proposed increase in the rents for council housing has been cut in half.
We tend to forget, with all the fuss about mortgages, that just under a third of all householders pay rent, and of these about two- thirds live in "social housing", provided either by local authorities or other social landlords such as housing associations. Local authorities still control the largest share.See the full content of this document
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More Social Housing Is the Way Forward
Dramatic crises lead to radical change. The First World War resulted in the collapse of the old empires and the emergence of Communist states.
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