Faultlines: Why isn’t housing a bigger election issue?
A new Sky News series 'Faultlines' covers in-depth and immersive reports exploring contemporary social challenges across the UK.
This episode asks 'is our housing market in crisis?', with not enough homes and expensive rentals forcing an increasing number of people into homelessness.
In 2021/22, just 7,528 new social homes were delivered. Nowhere near enough for the 1.1 million people on the waiting list and the government’s target of building 300,000 new homes a year. The seaside town Hastings is on the frontline of all that is wrong with the housing system, with evictions, social housing…
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