Housing disaster
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THE government's record on housing - failing to finance new house-building or maintenance and rehabilitation and selling off council housing - has already been slammed by a select committee with a Tory majority.
If further proof were needed that the government has something to hide, then you need look no further than the publication of a Department of Environment report on the single homeTHE "P!
ONE Mr H went on to outline in detail his group's sinister plans to prise all remaining power from the hands of constituencies into the Parliamentary Labour Another member of the audience claimed Solidarity would never change things while Foot was in control.
Mr H said frankly, "Foot will do what he is told. We set the limits. He doesn't go beyond them."
Last night my tape recording spread shock and dismay throughout the Labour Party. The consensus was now that Foot would be forced to expel everyone associated with the right wing and hand the party over to the left. less. The report, commissioned by the last Labour government and carried out by the no longer existing Centre for Environmental Studies, has been held up for two years. It was released, in shortened form on the day before budget day, when it would be overshadowed by other news items.
Most of the recommendations of the report, on policy for the single homeless, health checks and changes in social security regulations, have been deleted, as have detailed criticisms of hostel provision in particular areas.
Even so, the report dispels many of the myths about homeless people - the image of the socially inadequate/uneducated/drunken dossers who are supposed somehow to bring their plight upon themselves is effectively shattered.
One survey found half the homeless people had jobs: another than 40% had been educated past the age of 16 with 5% having university degrees and 7% technical education.
The report gives a detailed picture, which could no doubt be strengthened by publication of the suppressed parts, which confounds the government's complacency and indicates just how seriously the government is prepared to take research which shows up the inadequacy of their policies.
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