Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 exposed the failures of housing policy in England (and in many countries across the globe). Housing Benefit costs have risen by 40% in the last decade, according to the Affordable Housing Commission (2020) report. The size of the private rented sector has doubled in the last three decades, and during the same period Right to Buy Sales have seen over two million properties lost from the social housing sector. In recent years ‘affordable’ has lost its meaning in relation to housing. Up to 80% of market rent is no...
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